Digital Picture Book System for Foreign Learners who Studies Japanese Onomatopoeia

The Picture Book

Annotating foreign learners’ Czech

One of the challenges of contemporary corpus linguistics is the compilation and annotation of corpora consisting of texts produced by non-native speakers. In addition to morphosyntactic tagging and lemmatisation, such texts can be annotated by information relevant to the specific nonstandard use. Cases of deviant language use can be corrected and identified by a tag specifying the type of the e...

Interactive Picture Book with Story-Changeable System by Shuffling Pages

In this chapter, the authors introduce SequenceBook system, an interactive picture book that consists of a paper book with very thin IC (Integrated Circuit) tags embedded in each page and an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) antenna. This system uses a traditional paper book as an interface and realizes natural interface that keeps the affordance of traditional book and thus smoothly prompt...

Liquidity in a Limit Order Book Foreign Exchange Trading System

However, technological advances have recently altered the way foreign exchange dealer conduct their business. Bilateral deals still happen, although email conversations are now the norm (typically using the Reuters D2000-1 dealing system). The brokers market has also been revolutionized by the introduction of two electronic broking systems (Reuters D2000-2 and Electronic Broking Services [EBS])...

Japanese mothers’ utterances about agents and actions during joint picture-book reading

This study extended the research on the scaffolding provided by mothers while reading picture books with their children from a focus on conversational styles related to labeling to a focus on those related to agents and actions to clarify the process by which language develops from the one-word to the syntactic stage. We clarified whether mothers decreased the degree of scaffolding in their ini...