Adiabatic process in thermodynamics transfers energy across zero temperature difference. The adiabatic CMOS design style attempts to switch a transistor to transfer energy across its source and drain while the voltage difference is zero. We define an adiabatic microarchitecture that pushes instructions across zero IPC gradient. The IPC gradient can be zero across time: for the same stage IPC ov...

The goal of this thesis is to explore how foreign language learning can be facilitated through the use of intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) based on natural language processing (NLP) methods. ICALL was provided in the form of a task-based dialog system that gives corrective feedback.We investigated how different parameters of the interaction affect the learning progress. B...

This response to Azar (this volume) intends to discuss from an academic's perspective the main points raised in her paper (i.e., grammar-based instruction and its relation to focus on form and error correction) and, to encourage a more concept-based approach to grammar instruction (CBT). A CBT approach to language development argues that the conceptual nature of grammatical forms is best expres...

We take a novel approach to zero pronoun resolution in Chinese: our model explicitly tracks the flow of focus in a discourse. Our approach, which generalizes to deictic references, is not reliant on the presence of overt noun phrase antecedents to resolve to, and allows us to address the large percentage of “non-anaphoric” pronouns filtered out in other approaches. We furthermore train our mode...

abstractacquiring vocabulary, as a significant and challenging part of language learning process, has always been consistent with reading. in this study, the researchers examined the effect of enhanced extensive reading on efl learners’ incidental acquisition of english vocabulary, with specific focus on phrasal verbs. twenty five homogenized participants were selected and divided into two grou...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of textual enhancement and metalinguistic explanation as focus-on-form tasks tending to encourage the acquisition of nominal clauses (NCs) in English. It explored (a) whether textual enhancement and metalinguistic explanation would promote and enhance the knowledge of NCs, (b) whether these two tasks would differ in terms of enhancing learners' knowled...

This paper presents the Natural Language Processing-based linguistic analysis tool that we have developed for Japanese as a Second Language teachers. This program, Zero Detector (ZD), aims to promote effective instruction of zero anaphora, on the basis of a hypothesis about ideal conditions for second language acquisition, by making invisible zeros visible. ZD takes Japanese written narrative d...