I. The Problem with Best Interests: A Framework; a Justificatory Idiom; and a Problem ................................. 1192 A. Framework: The Three Dimensions of State Interventions Aimed at Influencing Reproduction .............................................................. 1192 B. Justificatory Idiom: Best Interests of the Resulting Child Justifications, Their Attraction and Prominence .....

The present study aimed to satisfy a twofold purpose: On the one hand, it sought to verify the postulation that agent-based instruction could offer a compromise approach to teaching L2 idioms where form and meaning would be equally emphasized during instruction. Given that anthropomorphism has not been much under scrutiny, this research, on the other hand, sought to ascertain whether learning a...

Template Method Pattern (see [5]) solves the problem of the existence of a generic algorithm for a family of classes that needs specialization in each and every concrete class. It does so by implementing the algorithm in the base class and by forwarding implementation details to (pure) virtual functions. In terms of [5] these forwarding functions are called primitive. In this paper we propose a...

We present a machine learning approach for classifying sentences as one-liner jokes or normal sentences. We use no deep analysis of the meaning to try to see if it is humorous, instead we rely on a combination of simple features to see if these are enough to detect humor. Features such as word overlap with other jokes, presence of words common in jokes, ambiguity and word overlap with common id...

While the selection of idioms for beginning level CFL learning and instruction is mostly determined byindividual preferences and pedagogical considerations, we propose that idiom selection targeting intermediateand advanced level CFL learners is better guided by a data-driven approach. Based on 20-million charactercorpus of Chinese news texts, we generated a reference frequency list...

Developers often use an idiom to implement a concern. When a fault is found in an idiom, developers have to find all source code fragments derived from the original. While code-clone detection tools can detect copy-andpasted code, such tools cannot detect code fragments modified after pasted. We are investigating a sequential pattern mining approach to capture idiom-based code that spread acros...

Using cross-modal priming, we investigated the processing of idioms in non-native listeners in varying experimental contexts. As idiomatic processing models have presented evidence for an idiomatic mode of processing that can be activated for non-native speakers in highly figurative contexts (Bobrow & Bell, 1973), this experiment revisits those claims while also examining access to figurative m...