First Steps at First Point: Protecting California Surf Breaks and the Malibu Historic District

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

QA@L2F, First Steps at QA@CLEF

This paper presents QA@LF, the question-answering system developed at LF, INESC-ID. QA@LF follows different strategies according with the question type, and relies strongly on named entity recognition and on the pre-detection of linguistic patterns. Each question type is mapped into a single strategy; however, if no answer is found, the system proceeds and tries to find an answer using one of t...

Robot ’ s first steps , Robot ’ s first

Communication is a desirable skill for robots. We describe a method of how these skills could be learned. An architecture of connectionist models is developed to allow the learning of a simple non-grammatical language. Concepts, in the form of a word and its meaning, and numerical quantities are understood separately. A physical system of two mobile autonomous robots, teacher and student, is bu...

The First Steps in Seeing

First Steps: Minding

Fostering collaborative efforts among ethicists, researchers and administrators (including Research Integrity Officers) would certainly seem to lay a direct path to enhancing research integrity at the academic research institution. Before collaborations among these groups of professionals may be explored, however, the cultural and cognitive gaps between these professions must be filled. And a p...