Language transfer: a useful or pernicious concept?

Concept Transfer Learning for Adaptive Language Understanding

Semantic transfer is an important problem of the language understanding (LU), which is about how the recognition pattern of a semantic concept benefits other associated concepts. In this paper, we propose a new semantic representation based on combinatory concepts. Semantic slot is represented as a composition of different atomic concepts in different semantic dimensions. Specifically, we propo...

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Abscopal Effect: Propitious or Pernicious?

Recent advances in the field of radiation biology have increased our knowledge of cellular responses to radiation and microenvironmental disseminations through radiation at molecular level.

The Concept of Educational Culture Language: A Case of Labeling

The verbal interaction among students, teachers, parents, and school administrators plays a significant role in achieving educational goals as the language used in educational settings while mirroring the dominant educational culture, functions as an important tool in shaping and reshaping their beliefs. Thus, the culture language in any educational setting needs to be studied in order to ident...

Metabolic efficiency: is it a useful concept?

The idea of metabolic efficiency is widely known in biochemistry , and appears in some form or other in many textbooks (e. Rather less common is any discussion of what the calculation of a metabolic efficiency actually means [though an excellent one may be found in Atkinson (1977)1, presumably because it is regarded as intuitively obvious. The simplest, and most clearly objectionable, kind of e...