This paper presents e-Training DS, an instructor-oriented toolkit for the integration of portable game consoles in modern e-learning environments (e.g. MoodleTM). The tool is based on a general model in which the instructor maintains a library of mini-games that are easily produced by customizing generic game patterns (e.g. a simple jigsaw puzzle). The authors can then compile a working set of ...

The goal of this work is to introduce CHILDES-MWE, which contains English CHILDES corpora automatically annotated with Multiword Expressions (MWEs) information. The result is a resource with almost 350,000 sentences annotated with more than 70,000 distinct MWEs of various types from both longitudinal and latitudinal corpora. This resource can be used for large scale language acquisition studies...

This short paper aims at presenting a method for automatically extracting and evaluating MWE in the Europarl corpus. For this purpose we make use of mwetoolkit and utilize its output to find rules for the automatic evaluation of MWE. We then developed an XML parser to evaluate MWE candidates against those rules and also against online dictionaries. A sample of the results was manually evaluated...

We propose a method to search for illustrative sentences for English multiword expressions (MWEs) from a research paper database. We focus on syntactically flexible expressions such as “regard – as.” Traditionally, illustrative sentences that contain such expressions have been searched for by limiting the maximum number of words between the component words of the MWE. However, this method could...

Most of the research on the extraction of idiomatic multiword expressions (MWEs) focused on the acquisition of MWE types. In the present work we investigate whether a text instance of a potentially idiomatic MWE is actually used idiomatically in a given context or not. Inspired by the dataset provided by (Cook et al., 2008), we manually analysed 9,700 instances of potentially idiomatic preposit...

Education, by regarding the social and critical elements can be traced back to the 20th century. Critical pedagogy was started out of the need of reforming education in a way that it would acknowledge the influence of the present social and political elements in each and every educational context. Some critical theorists applied ideas in critical theories to education in the society....

Zinc is one of the essential elements in biological system. The role of this element in many enzymes has been proved. Zinc has an antagonistic effect on the toxic elements such as cadmium, as both binds to a carrier protein called metalothionein . Zinc can be found in atmosphere of different industrial environment. Due to its importance, it's concentration in the serum of 399 Male workers of sa...

Effective management of a machine’s memory resources needs comprehensive information regarding the realtime memory consumption of applications. Memory demands can be estimated accurately by tracking the working set sizes of programs. We propose a software approach for monitoring the working set size of applications, based on Denning’s mathematical model of working sets. This technique is implem...