Timothy Endicott

Health Consultation - Endicott Area Investigation

Endicott College at 2014 TREC Session Track

Endicott College submitted three runs to Task 1 of the 2014 TREC Session Track. All runs reranked the baseline runs provided by the track organizers. One of the runs made use of a click graph to re-rank results for RL1, RL2, and RL3. The other two used relevance models computed over snippets from the session, and boosted their RL3 run using click graph recommendations. In the absence of clicks ...

Timothy Hall

The emergence of lexico-grammatical productivity has been a central issue in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Ellis (2002) proposed that formulaic chunks of language are one resource for the learner to develop such productivity. This exploratory study sought to determine whether formulaic language chunks were observed in the oral production of three adult beginner learners of Eng...

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Robust cognitive change Timothy

Two major challenges facing researchers interested in cognitive change are that measures of change are often not very reliable, and they may reflect effects of prior test experience in addition to the factors of primary interest. One approach to dealing with these problems is to obtain multiple measures of change on parallel versions of the same tests in a measurement burst design. A total of 7...