The Technological developments in information and communication led to a new perception of teaching. Thus, from distant teaching, which knew its first developments with the appearance of the postage stamp, to distant learning including means allowing broader layers of the society to have access to knowledge. E-learning is rather a new concept that arose from internet technologies. The implement...

BACKGROUND Cross-cultural research on minority school achievement yields mixed findings on the motivational impact of future goal setting for students from disadvantaged minority groups. Relevant and recent motivational research, integrating Future Time Perspective Theory with Self-Determination Theory, has not yet been validated among minority students. AIMS To replicate across cultures the ...

Manual annotation is a tedious and time consuming process, usually needed for generating training corpora to be used in a machine learning scenario. The distant supervision paradigm aims at automatically generating such corpora from structured data. The active learning paradigm aims at reducing the effort needed for manual annotation. We explore active and distant learning approaches jointly to...

One of the challenges to information extraction is the requirement of human annotated examples, commonly called gold-standard examples. Many successful approaches alleviate this problem by employing some form of distant supervision, i.e., look into knowledge bases such as Freebase as a source of supervision to create more examples. While this is perfectly reasonable, most distant supervision me...

Sequence-to-sequence attentional-based neural network architectures have been shown to provide a powerful model for machine translation and speech recognition. Recently, several works have attempted to extend the models for end-to-end speech translation task. However, the usefulness of these models were only investigated on language pairs with similar syntax and word order (e.g., English-French...