This study was an attempt to investigate whether output tasks, i.e., reconstruction and picturecuedwriting tasks, promote learners’ noticing of English passive structure compared to nonoutputtasks, i.e., reading comprehension and if so, which output task is more effective inenhancing learners’ noticing. In addition, this study aimed to investigate whether output tasksfacilitate learning of Engl...

The paper applies knowledge transfer methods to the problem of detecting Wikipedia vandalism detection, defined as malicious editing intended to compromise the integrity of the content of articles. A major challenge of detecting Wikipedia vandalism is the lack of a large amount of labeled training data. Knowledge transfer addresses this challenge by leveraging previously acquired knowledge from...

At present, the task of post-editing Machine Translation (MT) is commonly carried out via Translation Memory (TM) tools that, while well-suited for editing of TM matches, do not fully support MT post-editing. This paper describes the results of a survey of professional translators and post-editors, in which they chose features and functions that they would like to see in translation and post-ed...

Information and Communications Research Laboratories Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 006, Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, OSAKA, 571, JAPAN In this paper, some concepts that are important for hypermedia editing are discussed. At first, the concept named “reflective viewing” is introduced. Reflective viewing is such aconcept that when an user do something, then he/she can immediately get the result...

This paper describes the design and implementation of the MATE workbench, a program which provides support for the annotation of speech and text. It provides facilities for flexible display and editing of such annotations, and complex querying of a resulting corpus. The workbench offers a more flexible approach than most existing annotation tools, which were often designed with a specific annot...

Programming by example (PBE) literally means making “programs” from examples, but PBE techniques are also useful for automating text composition tasks by creating editing procedures from the history of a user’s editing operations. Composition by example (CBE) is a practical approach to improve the efficiency of text composition tasks using various simple PBE techniques. Thousands of people are ...

The paper presents new editing interface for lexicon of verb valencies (VerbaLex). Previous method of editing text files in custom setup of VIM text editor will be replaced by web application based on DEB platform. New interface will contain more strict control of the valencies format and structure. It should also be easier to learn for new editors. The data will be saved in XML format, thus al...

Simultaneous editing is a new method for automating repetitive text editing. After describing a set of regions to edit (the records), the user can edit any one record and see equivalent edits applied simultaneously to all other records. The essence of simultaneous editing is generalizing the user’s selection in one record to equivalent selections in the other records. We describe a generalizati...

Machine learning research has been very successful at producing powerful, broadlyapplicable classification learners. However, many practical learning problems do not fit the classification framework well, and as a result the initial phase of suitably formulating the problem and incorporating the relevant domain knowledge can be very difficult and typically consumes the majority of the project t...

This research examined the ability of an anthropomorphic interface assistant to help people learn and use an unfamiliar text-editing tool, with a specific focus on assessing proactive assistant behavior. Participants in the study were introduced to a text editing system that used keypress combinations for invoking the different editing operations. Participants then were directed to make a set o...