In this paper, we present an extensible framework for interactive multimodal contents, with emphasis on augmented reality applications. The proposed framework, EDSUN, enables concurrent and variable narrative structures as well as content reusability and dynamic yet natural experience generation. EDSUN’s main components include a canonical specification of 5state lexical syntax and grammar, sto...

As the world's population increases, marginal lands such as drylands are likely to become more important for food production. One proven strategy for improving crop production in drylands involves shifting from conventional tillage to no-till to increase water use efficiency, especially when this shift is coupled with more intensive crop rotations. Practices such as no-till that reduce soil dis...

Lexical simplification has attracted much attention in many languages, which is the process of replacing complex words a given sentence with simpler alternatives equivalent meaning. Although richness vocabulary Chinese makes text very difficult to read for children and non-native speakers, there no research work lexical (CLS) task. To circumvent difficulties acquiring annotations, we manually c...

the present research investigated the effect of self-regulatory approach (with two components of self-checking and self-efficacy) on pre-intermediate iranian learners' lexical segmentation in listening comprehension via authentic listening comprehension texts. to achieve this purpose, the investigators administered an oxford placement test (2007) to ninety-eight students of two girls’ priv...

with the emphasis of minimalist program on functional categories as having an equal  or more prominent status than  lexical ones, decision on the nature of the categories has attracted more investigations in recent studies. one of the basic categories the presence of which beside other lexical categories of verb, noun and adjective has been in question, is preposition. it seems that the functio...

We propose a method for acquiring plain lexical paraphrase using a Japanese dictionary in order to achieve lexical simplification for children. The proposed method extracts plain words that are the most similar to the headword from the dictionary definition. The definition statements describe the headword using plain words; therefore, paraphrasing by replacing the headword with the most similar...