AbstractThe success of deep learning is usually accompanied by the growth in neural network depth. However, traditional training method only supervises at its last layer and propagates supervision layer-by-layer, which leads to hardship optimizing intermediate layers. Recently, has been proposed add auxiliary classifiers layers networks. By these with supervised task loss, can be applied shallo...

The study explores the application of consciousness-raising (CR), an effective teaching method in language teaching, into translation. In CR involves attempt to draw students’ attention textual features. Studies present diverse evidence for effectiveness teaching. current incorporates workshops on translation and investigates whether students are aware specific aspects process after workshops. ...

The communicative approach in foreign language instruction arguably is supposed to approximate a real-world setting to certain extent; but, it all too often falls short of providing a realistic context for the language to be used in all its possible variations. The fact that languages are dynamic and change is rarely recognized outside of the classroom due to the static nature of texts and pre-...

This pape.r shows that contrastive Hebbian, the algorithm used in mean field learning, can be applied to any continuous Hopfield model. This implies that non-logistic activation functions as well as self connections are allowed. Contrary to previous approaches, the learning algorithm is derived without considering it a mean field approximation to Boltzmann machine learning. The paper includes a...

Phonological neighborhood density (ND) conditions variation in a number of acoustic phonetic properties of words. For example, previous research has shown greater hyperarticulation and greater nasal coarticulation in high-ND English words than in low-ND words. Here, we investigate the effects of ND on vowel hyperarticulation and vowel nasality (coarticulatory and contrastive) in French. Acousti...

This study aims at determining whether there are visual cues to contrastive focus in French. An audiovisual corpus was recorded from a male native speaker of French consisting of sentences with a subject-verb-object (SVO) syntactic structure. Four conditions were studied: focus on each phrase (S,V,O) and broad focus. The corpus was first acoustically validated: the pitch maximum over the uttera...

What has transpired immediately before has a strong influence on how sensory stimuli are processed and perceived. In particular, temporal context can have contrastive effects, repelling perception away from the interpretation of the context stimulus, and attractive effects (TCEs), whereby perception repeats upon successive presentations of the same stimulus. For decades, scientists have documen...

The kpml development environment ooers a comfortable graphical and mouse-click oriented user interface for developing and maintaining large-scale sets of multilingual systemic-functional linguistic descriptions. Resource sets can be tested by static integrity checks and by application in text generation mode. Particular support is given for the development of descriptions for new language on th...