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ICWL
2009
Springer
16 years 14 days ago
Microblogging for Language Learning: Using Twitter to Train Communicative and Cultural Competence
Abstract. Our work analyzes the usefulness of microblogging in second language learning using the example of the social network Twitter. Most learners of English do not require eve...
Kerstin Borau, Carsten Ullrich, Jinjin Feng, Ruimi...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study on Language Model Adaptation Using a Metric of Domain Similarity
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...
Wei Yuan, Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki
LREC
2010
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15 years 7 months ago
Expanding the Lexicon for a Resource-Poor Language Using a Morphological Analyzer and a Web Crawler
Resource-poor languages may suffer from a lack of any of the basic resources that are fundamental to computational linguistics, including an adequate digital lexicon. Given the re...
Michael Gasser
CVPR
2012
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Enhanced continuous sign language recognition using PCA and neural network features
In this work a Gaussian Hidden Markov Model (GHMM) based automatic sign language recognition system is built on the SIGNUM database. The system is trained on appearance-based feat...
Yannick L. Gweth, Christian Plahl, Hermann Ney
ICALT
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Exploration of Using Wiki in an English as a Second Language Course
In this paper, we present an empirical study of using a new and cost-effective Web-based collaboration software, Wiki, in a freshman-level English as a second language (ESL) cours...
Hao-Chuan Wang, Chun-Hung Lu, Jun-Yi Yang, Hsin-We...