This research explores emotional response to gesture in order to inform future product interaction design. After describing the emergence and likely role of full-body interfaces with devices and systems, the importance of emotional reaction to the necessary movements and gestures is outlined. A gestural vocabulary for the control of a web page is then presented, along with a semantic differenti...

To achieve an acceptable degree of generalization, current speech recognition systems work with large vocabularies, which, among other e ects, result in higher search spaces and consequently lower system performance. For highly in ectional languages, such as the Portuguese, a much larger vocabulary is required for the same tasks coverage and a much larger text corpus for extraction of word-base...

The conviction that L1 and L2/FL learners can acquire unfamiliar vocabulary items in the course of reading, that is, that so-called incidental vocabulary acquisition is a by-product of the reading process, has been held by numerous researchers involved in the study of the relationship between reading and vocabulary (Paribakht & Wesche, 1997). This study investigated whether doing two types of t...

UNLABELLED We describe a model for assessment of lexical-semantic organization skills in American Sign Language (ASL) within the framework of dynamic vocabulary assessment and discuss the applicability and validity of the use of mediated learning experiences (MLE) with deaf signing children. Two elementary students (ages 7;6 and 8;4) completed a set of four vocabulary tasks and received two 30-...

This paper adresses the correct choice and combination of confidence measures in large vocabulary speech recognition tasks. We classify single words within continuous as well as large vocabulary utterances into two categories: utterances within the vocabulary which are recognized correctly, and other utterances, namely misrecognized utterances or (less frequent) out-of-vocabulary (OOV). To this...

Neural machine translation (NMT) models typically operate with a fixed vocabulary, but translation is an open-vocabulary problem. Previous work addresses the translation of out-of-vocabulary words by backing off to a dictionary. In this paper, we introduce a simpler and more effective approach, making the NMT model capable of open-vocabulary translation by encoding rare and unknown words as seq...

Phonological awareness skills are critical for reading acquisition, yet relatively little is known about the origins of phonological awareness. This study investigates one plausible source of the emergence of phonological awareness, phonological neighbourhood density. As vocabulary grows, the number of similar-sounding words in the child's mental lexicon increases. This could create development...

Vocabulary learning is an on-going and life-long process, which is greatly influenced by individual differences. As one of the most outstanding individual differences, learning style largely determines learners’ selection of learning strategies and thereby has a great effect on learning outcomes. Matching learning strategies with learning styles has a great potential in enhancing learning. Alth...