We present a new approach to harvesting a large-scale, high quality image-caption corpus that makes a better use of already existing web data with no additional human efforts. The key idea is to focus on Déjà Image-Captions: naturally existing image descriptions that are repeated almost verbatim – by more than one individual for different images. The resulting corpus provides association struct...

The conceptual idea of the paper is that the use of digital biographical narratives in a foreign language classroom creates favorable conditions for the harmonious development and creative, cognitive, communicative and technological skills of students. The paper deals with the methods of teaching students to create digital biographical narratives about the life of outstanding personalities whic...

The lecture is a creative process in which both a lecturer and a student take part. The basic aim of the lecture is to help students to comprehend the major notions of the subject taught which implies creative and active perception of the material. In addition, attention should be paid to basic concepts, definitions, designations, assumptions. A critical analysis of main issues, facts and ideas...

This paper addresses the identification of creative criteria to support the development of innovative systems. In idea generation, criteria that characterise creative ideas are: fluency, variety, innovativeness and usefulness. Creative criteria have been defined at a very generic level, and we have found very little indication of how in particular, the concept of innovativeness is operationalis...

Zabramski, S. 2014. Creating Digital Traces of Ideas. Evaluation of Computer Input Methods in Creative and Non-Creative Drawing. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 94. 110 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8911-3. Ideas are formed in a process of idea generation that includes creation, development, and communic...

The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?* We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different from other firms in terms...

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