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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language-Independent Representations Improve Zero-Shot Summarization [PDF]

Finetuning pretrained models on downstream generation tasks often leads to catastrophic forgetting in zero-shot conditions. In this work, we focus on summarization and tackle the problem through the lens of language-independent representations.
Liu, Danni, Niehues, Jan, Solovyev, Vladimir   +2 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Out of Ground Zero: Catastrophe and Memory [PDF]

, 2002
Subject offers a cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective on the problems of catastrophe and the process of memorializing. It asks what media and various art forms can offer to the project of collective memory.
Scribner, Charity
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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald, Lee Cubis, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridge the Gap Between Visual and Linguistic Comprehension for Generalized Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation

CoRR
Generalized zero-shot semantic segmentation (GZS3) aims to achieve the human-level capability of segmenting not only seen classes but also novel class regions unseen in the training data through introducing the bridge of semantic representations, e.g., word vector.
Xiaoqing Guo, Wuyang Li, Yixuan Yuan
openaire   +2 more sources

Translation and Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test for Global Use

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test (CRCT) is a patient‐reported outcome measure (PROM) written in English that is psychometrically validated to measure chronic rhinosinusitis control. Because the availability of translated PROMs is a driver of data equity—collection of data that is fair and generally representative—our ...
Hye K. Pae, Detong Xia, Hanzhong Sun, Yudi Chen, Kwangoh Yi, Minjeong Song, Eriko Sato, Ali R. Abasi, Jody Ballah, Anna Babarczy, Raymond Bertram, Agnieszka Biernacka, Mable Chan, Teresa Civera, Irina Dubinina, Doğu Erdener, María Isabel Maldonado García, Ali Garib, Tuomo Häikiö, Fuk‐chuen HO, Li‐Yu Hung, R. Malatesha Joshi, Oksana Kanerva, Kiranpreet Kaur Baath, Björn Köhnlein, Dalibor Kučera, Paula Luegi, Yustinus Calvin Gai Mali, Sivan Medina, Stefan Milosavljević, Amna Mirza, Mohamed Y. Mwamzandi, Fatemeh Nami, Anabella‐Gloria Niculescu‐Gorpin, Portia Padilla, Georgia Panayiotou, Manuel Perea, Luciano Perondi, Hiển Phạm, Rasmus Puggaard‐Rode, Anurag Rimzhim, Sreeparna Sarkar, David L. Share, Gláucia V. Silva, Antônio R. M. Simões, Charlotte Stormbom, Titima Suthiwan, Katsuo Tamaoka, Mila Tasseva‐Kurktchieva, Paweł Urbanik, An Van, Katie M. Phillips, Ahmad R. Sedaghat   +52 more
wiley   +1 more source

Annotating honorifics denoting social ranking of referents [PDF]

, 2011
This paper proposes an annotating scheme that encodes honorifics (respectful words). Honorifics are used extensively in Japanese, reflecting the social relationship (e.g. social ranks and age) of the referents.
Nakaiwa, Hiromi, Siegel, Melanie, Nariyama, Shigeko   +2 more
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Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness Using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer

Globalisation and colonisation have led the vast majority of the world to use only a fraction of languages, such as English and French, to communicate, excluding many others. This has severely affected the survivability of many now-deemed vulnerable or endangered languages, such as Occitan and Sicilian. These languages often share some characteristics,
Andreas Chari, Sean MacAvaney, Iadh Ounis   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources