This paper describes a graduate-level machine translation (MT) course taught at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Most of the students in the course have a background in computer science. We discuss what we teach (the course syllabus), and how we teach it (lectures, homeworks, and projects). The course has evolved steadily over the past several years to incorpor...

In this paper we propose a course recommendation system based on historical grades of students in college. Our model will be able to recommend available courses in sites such as: Coursera, Udacity, Edx, etc. To do so, probabilistic topic models are used as follows. On one hand, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model infers topics from content given in a college course syllabus. On the ot...

In 1995 the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill created an intranet system to provide support at several levels in the school's operations. At the administrative level these operations included the management of complex tasks such as class scheduling and admissions management. At the clinical level the system would be used to organize a new computerized ...

Mastery over speech acts plays a significant role in the accomplishment of communication between interlocutors. Thus, present study aimed to investigate Iranian EFL Instructors' perception and instructional practices towards form-focused instruction acts, specifically request apology invitation. To this aim, through sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, researchers selected 30 English la...