We used computational linguistic and content analyses to explore the concept of project ownership for undergraduate research. We used linguistic analysis of student interview data to develop a quantitative methodology for assessing project ownership and applied this method to measure degrees of project ownership expressed by students in relation to different types of educational research experi...

We introduce and analyze a new statistical ensemble of low-density parity-check convolutional (LDC) codes. The result of the analysis are bounds, such as a lower bound for the free distance and upper bounds for the burst error probability of the LDC codes.

The unit for research into reading that we set up in Liverpool is just over a year old now. It is called CRILS – the Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems. Odd though perhaps it may seem at first, we came out of a department for the study of English literature and into a faculty of Health and Life Sciences, to widen our remit across disciplines and in relation to ...

This paper describes a method for finding struc-rural matching between parallel sentences of two languages, (such as Japanese and English). Parallel sentences are analyzed based on unification grammars, and structural matching is performed by making use of a similarity measure of word pairs in the two languages. Syntactic ambiguities are resolved simultaneously in the matching process. The resu...

(2) This property of discrete infinity characterizes EVERY human language; none consists of a finite set of sentences. The unchanged central goal of linguistic theory over the last fifty years has been and remains to give a precise, formal characterization of this property and then to explain how humans develop (or grow) and use discretely infinite linguistic systems. (Epstein and Hornstein 200...

In this paper we present the “DEDALOS” [1] project which main object is the promotion of the English Language as a second language for the Deaf people. For this, we have designed and use pedagogic methodology of distant Linguistic Training and as well as innovative instructive material suitably adapted to the special team. The whole process has designed and includes audits and evaluation of the...

This paper reports on research and development work for the implementation of a Greek to Greek Sign Language (GSL) conversion tool, integrated into an educational platform that addresses needs of teaching GSL grammar, exploiting avatar technologies for the representation of linguistic message articulated in the 3D space. The Greek to GSL conversion engine that supports the platform is composed ...

©2016 Authors. Personal and educational classroom use of this paper is allowed, commercial use requires specific permission from the author. ABSTRACT We present perhaps the first exploration of the procedural generation of gameworld languages, meaning fictional languages spoken by characters in a game’s diegesis. This preliminary work takes a simulation-based approach in which languages are rep...

In this paper we present the creation and presentation of dynamic linguistic resources of Greek Sign Language (GSL). The resources feed the development of an educational multitask platform within the SYNENNOESE project for the teaching of GSL. The platform utilizes standard virtual character (VC) animation technologies for the synthesis of sign sequences/streams, exploiting digital linguistic r...

Very young nonor hardly-speaking children with severe disabilities need active guidance to stimulate interaction with their environment in order to develop their communicative and linguistic skills. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems can help this process, provided that they are tuned to this specific user group. LinguaBytes is a research programme, which aims at developin...