Creating Video Lectures on Literary History Academic Disciplines: Psychological and Didactic Approaches

Annotating meta-discourse in academic lectures from different disciplines

The use of discourse structure was shown to be effective in various applications. Meta-discourse is often used as an expression to signal discourse structure. Previous work focused on using the meta-discourse structure in written texts, or spoken material in very clean conditions. This paper presents a metadiscourse annotated corpus in a more challenging educational context. The corpus comprise...

the effects of previewing and providing background knowledge on iranian university efl learners’ comprehension of literary and academic texts

abstract poor reading comprehension can result in failure in using references, benefiting from professional gatherings and resources, keeping up with the growing body of knowledge in the virtual world of the internet, and failing to achieve in efl programs. the purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to explore the effects of background knowledge and previewing narrative and expos...

Comparative Literary History

Between Knowledges: Pacific Studies and Academic Disciplines

In this paper, I critically examine a number of notions about interdisciplinaryresearch approaches to the challenges posed by the world today. I juxtapose thiscritique with a discussion of interdisciplinary developments in Pacific studies, rais-ing questions as to how deeper dialogues between academic disciplines and theworldviews of Pacific Islanders may be reached. While inter...

A System for On-demand Video Lectures

We propose a lecture-on-demand system, which searches lecture videos for segments relevant to user information needs. We utilize the benefits of textbooks and audio/video data corresponding to a single lecture. Our system extracts the audio track from a target lecture video, generates a transcription by large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, and produces a textual index. Users can sele...