OBJECTIVE To examine a text-messaging program for self-monitoring symptoms of bulimia nervosa (BN) within the context of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). METHOD Thirty-one women participated in 12 weekly group CBT sessions and a 12 week follow-up. Participants submitted a text message nightly indicating the number of binge eating and purging episodes and rating their urges to binge and pur...

This paper reports the findings of a case study in which audio feedback replaced text-based feedback in asynchronous courses. Previous research has demonstrated that participants in online courses can build effective learning communities through text based communication alone. Similarly, it has been demonstrated that instructors for online courses can adequately project immediacy behaviors usin...

In this article, we have defined a novel task of affective feedback synthesis that generates for input text and corresponding images in way similar to humans responding multimodal data. A system has been proposed trained using ground-truth human comments along with image–text input. We also constructed large-scale dataset consisting images, text, Twitter user comments, the number likes by crawl...

This research is a quasi-experimental study investigating the effect of different types of teacher Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) on Iranian EFL learners’ writing accuracy in using two functions of English articles (the first mention and anaphoric reference) and simple past tense (regular and irregular). Ninety-four Iranian learners of English were assigned into three experimental groups of ...

The present study explores the effect of providing different types of written corrective feedback (WCF) on 79 Iranian EFL learners’ writings over time through a pre-test, immediate post-test and delayed post-test. In this way, the study first aims to investigate the extent to which different types of WCF result in improved accuracy in writing over a period of two months, and then maintain...

In this paper we will describe Berkeley’s approach to the ImageCLEFphoto task for CLEF 2007. Once again (as in ImageCLEFphoto for CLEF 2006) we used entirely text-based methods for retrieval. For some runs this year, however, we exploited the basic similarity of the topics and database from 2006 to acquire the metadata descriptions of the “example images” in the 2007 queries, and used that meta...

This paper describes the collection and annotation of comparable multimodal corpora for Nordic languages in a project involving research groups from Denmark, Estonia, Finland and Sweden. The goal of the project is to provide annotated multimodal resources to study communicative phenomena, such as feedback, turn-taking and sequencing in the languages involved in the project and to compare these ...