ILP: A Short Look Back and a Longer Look Forward

ILP: A Short Look Ba k and a Longer Look Forward

I'm No Longer a Child: A Closer Look at the Interaction Between Iranian EFL University Students' Identities and Their Academic Performance

Although university EFL students represent a wide array of social and cultural identities, their multiple and diverse identities are not usually considered in foreign language classrooms. This qualitative case study attempted to examine identity conflicts experienced by Iranian EFL learners at the university context. To this end, two Shiraz University students' identities were investigated. Sem...

Recurring Themes in Author's Subconscious A Look at a Collection of Short Stories: The Wrong People by Shiva Moghanlou

Little more than a century has gone by after the first applications of psychoanalytic and psychological approaches to literary criticism, however, even in this relatively shorter span, these approaches have been able to open up new perspectives in the analysis and critique of literary texts. In an analysis of three collections of short stories by the Persian writer (Shiva Moghanlou)that were pu...

Look-ahead in ILP by Taming the Hypothesis Search Space

This paper presents an information theoretic ILP system, NFOIL which, by the virtue of its unconditional look-ahead while searching for the target theory, guarantees the target theory to be found in the hypothesis space. The contribution of the paper is twofold: the rst one is the discovery of some novel techniques for taming the intractable search space encountered by existing ILP systems and ...

Persian Carpet: A New Look From a Different Angle

The Textile Museum & The International Hajji Baba Club Washington D.C. June 19, 2004 Introduction Handmade carpet production in Iran goes back to the history, of which is not the subject of this short paper and presentation. Carpet production and in general carpet culture especially in rural areas is combined and mixed with every-day life of many people. In rural places, almost all the women...