framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported l2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the vocabulary knowledge of iranian efl learners. the goal was to investigate the way that the construct of involvement load is related to the input hypothesis (krashen, 1985) and the output ...

A study was conducted to investigate the effects of time-gap settings and contents of secondary tasks on a fix-based bus driving simulator on drivers’ performance while reclaiming control from ACC in a car-following scenario of emergency brake by the lead vehicle. Thirty professional bus drivers drove on the simulator with the scenario of highway traffic flow under 12 random time-gap settings: ...

Classical studies suggest that high-level cognitive decisions (e.g., choosing between financial options) are suboptimal. In contrast, low-level decisions (e.g., choosing where to put your feet on a rocky ridge) appear near-optimal: the perception-cognition gap. Moreover, in classical tasks, people appear to put too much weight on unlikely events. In contrast, when people can learn through exper...

A part of the broad research domains Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval deals only with Data Mining in texts: Text Mining. In general, Text Mining tries to obtain knowledge by identifying patterns in textual data. One of its most important areas is Opinion Mining, which is the main topic of this thesis. Opinion Mining is a far-reaching research area, because it is potentially interes...

Opinion Target Extraction is one of the important tasks for text sentiment analysis, which has attracted much attention from many researchers. For this task, we proposed an M-Score algorithm utilized in the model which realized the domain-independent opinion target extraction function. This algorithm is derived from the Pointwise Mutual Information algorithm, but the difference is that it doesn...

Introduction. The assessment of learning needs is one of the basic stages in education which leads to a change in medical education curriculum. Such assessment can be conducted based on different reasons. Therefore it should be defined, and the methods of application of the findings must be analyzed. One of the known methods of need assessment is the analysis of the differences between the p...

Existing opinion analysis techniques rely on the clues within the sentence that focus on the sentiment analysis task itself. However, the sentiment analysis task is not isolated from other NLP tasks (co-reference resolution, entity linking, etc) but they can benefit each other. In this paper, we define dependencies between sentiment analysis and other tasks, and express the dependencies in firs...

Different types of stereoscopic acuity were studied with tasks adapted from studies of visual direction acuity. Dynamic, random-element stereograms portraying multiple surfaces in depth and a temporal 2AFC procedure were used for all measurements. The three tasks required detection of a depth offset (Hyperacuity task), a depth-axis thickening (Superresolution task), and a depth-axis gap between...