The Iban Textiles

Examining the Form and Function of the Iban War Canoe

Anthro 1218 8 April 2016 Examining the Form and Function of the Iban War Canoe Salient aspects of this boat’s construction are suggested by its name: war canoe. Indeed, features of a boat’s construction are highly correlated with its stated purpose, and this parallel certainly holds true in the case of the model of an Iban canoe. The unity of form and function is enhanced by an understanding of...

The Evaluation of User Acceptance of an Iban Digital Story Telling (idst) Application among Iban Language Teachers

The subject of Iban language for Year One’s students is taught with elements of children's story. However, a preliminary investigation found that the current approach in teaching this subject using a textbook and audio narration is not efficacious. Thus, an Iban Digital Story Telling (IDST) application was developed to assist teachers in teaching Iban language. The aim of this study is to exami...

The nutritional status of Iban preschool children, Sarawak.

An anthropometric study and dietary investigations were conducted in an Iban community in the Sixth Division of Sarawak. 140 children aged 0 to 6 years, were assessed anthropometrically. Their mean weights and heights were much lower than those of their counterparts in Singapore. 7% of the children were nutritional dwarfs while about 68% were either wasted or wasted as well as stunted. Rice was...

NERSIL - the Named-Entity Recognition System for Iban Language

This paper presents NERSIL, the first Iban named entity recognition using ANNIE, an information extraction tool available within GATE. We proposed a method for building rules and gazetteers for Iban language. Rules were determined based on named entities that were not recognized by ANNIE. Then, the investigation of the contexts of these non-recognized Iban named entities allowed us to write the...

Porosity of the Flat Textiles