Narrative approaches to raising consciousness about sexual harassment: From research to pedagogy and back again

Exploring Impacts of Consciousness-raising in a Genre-based Pedagogy

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

From Paragraphs to Vectors and Back Again

I investigate some methods of encoding text into vectors and decoding these vector representations. The purpose of decoding vector representations is two fold. Firstly, I could apply unsupervised learning algorithms to the paragraph vectors to find significant ”new” vectors and decode them into paragraphs of text. Effectively, I could process text and generate ”new” ideas. Secondly, I could dec...

From Local to Global and Back Again

This paper considers the cost of preprocessing a digital terrain model (DTM) represented as a trian-gulated irregular network (TIN) so that drainage queries|e.g., what is the watershed of a query point, or how much water passes through a point given that rain is falling at a known rate|can be answered by simply evaluating a summary function. Although the worst-case storage and preprocessing cos...

From bedside to bench and back again.

From PRISM to ProbLog and Back Again

PRISM and ProbLog are two prominent languages for Probabilistic Logic Programming. While they are superficially very similar, there are subtle differences between them that lead to different formulations of the same probabilistic model. This paper aims to shed more light on the differences by developing two source-to-source transformations, from PRISM to ProbLog and back.