... of appropriate use and understanding of language in different sociolinguistic contexts, with emphasis on appropriateness of meaning and forms Discourse competence: mastery of how to combine and ... Canale and Swain (1980); Bachman and Palmer (1996) have done According to Alderson, Clapham and Wall (1995, p 41), a language test is a set of test items Each test item “consists of a method of ... recognize changes in pitch, tone and speed of delivery (2) Processing meaning: To organize the incoming speech into meaningful sections; To identify redundant material; To use language data to anticipate...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:40
... 2005; Soricut and Brill, 2006), as have the human-powered question sites such as Answers.com, Yahoo Answers and Google Answers, where individuals can post questions and receive answers from peers ... dynamic and inexpensive method of collecting a corpus of questions and answers using the Amazon Mechanical Turk framework We have provided to the community a corpus of questions, answers and corresponding ... selection of natural questions The articles varied in topic, degree of formality and the amount of details; from ”Horror film” and ”Christmas worldwide” to ”G-Man (Half-Life)” and ”History of London”...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Methods for the Qualitative Evaluation of Lexical Association Measures" doc
... instance, 80% of the full set of PNV data and 58% of the AdjN data are hapaxes Thus it is important to know how many (and which) true collocations there are among the excluded low-frequency candidates ... curves (Figures and 4), we nd: (i) Examination of 50% of the data in the SLs leads to identication of between 75% (AdjN) and 80% (PNV) of the TPs (ii) For the rst 40% of the SLs, and lead to the ... lack of signicant differences between the measures except for certain specic values of We have also shown that the evaluation results and the ranking of AMs differ depending on the kind of collocations...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "You Can’t Beat Frequency (Unless You Use Linguistic Knowledge) – A Qualitative Evaluation of Association Measures for Collocation and Term Extraction" pot
... June 1999 San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann 791 Christian Jacquemin 2001 Spotting and Discovering Terms through NLP Mass.: MIT Press Brigitte Krenn and Stefan Evert 2001 Can we better than frequency? ... Quebec, e Canada, August 10-14, 1998 San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Dekang Lin 1999 Automatic identification of noncompositional phrases In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association ... Balancing Act: Combining Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Language, pages 49– 66 Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Stefan Evert and Brigitte Krenn 2001 Methods for the qualitative evaluation of...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Darpa Communicator Spoken Dialogue Systems" pdf
... system goal of managing the verbal channel and providing evidence of what has been understood (Walker, 1992; Clark and Schaefer, 1989) Utterances of this type are frequent in human-computer dialogue, ... scheme for evaluation In Human Language Technology Conference Marilyn A Walker, Candace A Kamm, and Diane J Litman 2000 Towards developing general models of usability with PARADISE Natural Language ... Discussion and Future Work We showed above that the addition of dialogue act metrics improves the fit of models of user satisfaction from 37% to 42% Many of the significant dialogue act metrics can be...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Conflicting priorities: evaluation of an intervention to improve nurse-parent relationships on a Tanzanian paediatric ward" pptx
... responses and as to which participants were speaking These notes were expanded immediately after each FGD Data management and analysis Records from workshops and the FGDs were transcribed and translated ... in another hospital setting in Ghana [28] In addition, "can do" began to be seen as more complex than knowledge and equipment: the importance of relationships between staff and between staff and ... and survey; RNM and CIRC carried out qualitative analysis of transcripts; CIRC conducted statistical analysis; all authors contributed to the interpretation of the data and to drafting the manuscript...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Design and Performance Evaluation of an Adaptive Resource Management Framework for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems" pptx
... predictable and high-performance system, even in the face of changing operational conditions and workloads (iii) The empirical evaluation of RACE’s scalability as the number of nodes and applications ... algorithms and middleware platforms and improve flexibility (iii) Design of a framework determines its performance and applicability The design of key modules and entities of the resource management ... adaptive resource management It is easier to design, analyze, and implement centralized adaptive resource management algorithms that manage an entire system than it is to design, analyze, and implement...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Stereotactic body radiotherapy for stage I lung cancer and small lung metastasis: evaluation of an immobilization system for suppression of respiratory tumor movement and preliminary results" ppsx
... acquisition and analysis of data HO participated in the design of the study and helped to perform the statistical analysis CS participated in analysis and interpretation of data and helped to ... study and drafted the manuscript YS indicated the design of the study and gave final approval of the version to be published NT participated in analysis and interpretation of data CIH, KO and SA ... respiratory function and tumor movement To compare the change of SpO2 levels under conditions C and D, repeated measure analysis of variance was used Survival rates and cumulative incidences of complications...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22
báo cáo khoa học: " Part I, Patient perspective: activating patients to engage their providers in the use of evidencebased medicine: a qualitative evaluation of the VA Project to Implement Diuretics (VAPID)" pps
... simultaneously; detailed analysis of the thematic codes; and matrix analysis of codes The first stage was an iterative process with coding analysis and data collection occurring simultaneously and ... analysis and reviewed a draft of the manuscript MVW and AJC contributed to the design of the study and reviewing and revising the manuscript PJK was the principal investigator of the parent study and ... the manuscript RHB participated in the design of the interview guide, conducted interviews, performed the qualitative analysis, and reviewed a draft of the manuscript RG performed qualitative analysis...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22
Báo cáo y học: " Part I, Patient perspective: activating patients to engage their providers in the use of evidencebased medicine: a qualitative evaluation of the VA Project to Implement Diuretics (VAPID)" ppsx
... simultaneously; detailed analysis of the thematic codes; and matrix analysis of codes The first stage was an iterative process with coding analysis and data collection occurring simultaneously and ... analysis and reviewed a draft of the manuscript MVW and AJC contributed to the design of the study and reviewing and revising the manuscript PJK was the principal investigator of the parent study and ... the manuscript RHB participated in the design of the interview guide, conducted interviews, performed the qualitative analysis, and reviewed a draft of the manuscript RG performed qualitative analysis...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Rational Prescribing in Primary care (RaPP): process evaluation of an intervention to improve prescribing of antihypertensive and cholesterol-lowering drugs" ppsx
... change in practice or for the overall lack of change A combination of organizational problems and lack of time and engagement is the most viable explanation for the lack of effect." level of ... models: Change in thiazide-prescribing and in achievement of treatment goals Dependant variable: Change in rate of thiazide-prescribing Explanatory variable B (95 % CI) (Constant) Proportion of doctors ... pharmacist (interquartile range to 3), corresponding to an average attendance rate of 85% (interquartile range 67 to 100) The meetings lasted an average of 33 minutes (interquartile range: 30 to 40) Seven...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22
báo cáo khoa học: " Role of "external facilitation" in implementation of research findings: a qualitative evaluation of facilitation experiences in the Veterans Health Administration" potx
... success of implementation in different types of projects, different types of sites, and with evidence and innovations of varying levels of strength and complexity Background Implementation of research ... reinforcement of the importance of the initiative, and integration of changes into routine QI structures Conversely, lack of support was noted in, e.g., a lack of responsiveness to needed assistance from ... collection and analysis, and also provided initial and final refinements to the manuscript JR-M participated in its design, analysis and conceptual interpretations, drafted components of the manuscript,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22
Báo cáo y học: " Development and evaluation of an immunochromatographic strip test based on the recombinant UL51 protein for detecting antibody against duck enteritis virus" ppsx
... Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya an, Sichuan, 625014, China 2Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Ya an, Sichuan, 625014, China 3Epizootic ... blotting analysis of recombinant UL51 protein Lane 1, western blotting of the purified recombinant UL51 protein, with rabbit anti-DEV antibody and horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled sheep anti-rabbit ... number of ICS to the positive number of NT is 19.51% and that of the negative number of ICS to the negative number of NT is 75.36% Large-scale preparation and purification of the recombinant UL51...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "In vivo and in vitro evaluation of an Acetobacter xylinum synthesized microbial cellulose membrane intended for guided tissue repair" ppt
... Figure Scanning1electron microscopy of both sides of a microbial cellulose membrane Scanning electron microscopy of both sides of a microbial cellulose membrane One side of the membrane is completely ... xylinum and its in vitro ability as scaffold to mesenchymal stem cells Evaluation of membrane surface For the evaluation of the biomaterial's surface, membrane pieces of cm2 were submitted to scanning ... (PMNs), multinucleated giant cells (MGCs), and lymphocytes, and development of angiogenesis and fibrosis at seven, 15, 30, 60 and 90 days post-operatively Time points of evaluation (days) Cells/event...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22
Báo cáo y học: "Prospective evaluation of an internet-linked handheld computer critical care knowledge access system" ppsx
... rate of expansion of medical knowledge is increasing rapidly, and it is frequently difficult for clinicians to keep abreast of important new literature For example, several recently published randomized ... connect baseline and final scenario scores of participants who used the handheld device in the final scenario, and dotted lines connect scores of participants who did not use the handheld device ... group (P = 0.018) mal evaluation of this technology [13] Because the present study was an early hypothesis-generating evaluation of this technology, multiple quantitative and qualitative outcomes...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo y học: "Evaluation of an ambulatory system for the quantification of cough frequency in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" ppsx
... level of agreement and accuracy when compared to video/audio surveillance over an extended period and confirm its potential in the evaluation of antitussive therapies The availability of a valid, ... frequency and, although the number of coughs was higher than anticipated, it was within the range of what has been reported previously [12] Agreement between the LS system and video surveillance was ... observed for a maximum of 24 hours A total of 109 hours of simultaneous recordings of video and LS were obtained Of that time, 73.9 hours were observed during the day and 34.7 hours were observed...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article Evaluation of a Validation Method for MR Imaging-Based Motion Tracking Using Image Simulation" ppt
... Figures 1(a) and 1(b) show an example of an MR image and tagged MR image of a region of the phantom The voxel intensities of the images are bit unsigned integers with values ranging from to 511 The ... Mathworks Inc., USA) and involves the following steps: (1) simulation of a noiseless image and analysis of geometric bias, and (2) simulation of noisy magnitude MR data and analysis of the noise effects ... Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (a) (b) (c) Figure 1: (a) An MR image of a gel region with markers, (b) a tagged MR image region, and (c) the silicone gel soft tissue phantom containing...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Value of diffusion weighted MR imaging as an early surrogate parameter for evaluation of tumor response to high-dose-rate brachytherapy of colorectal liver metastase" docx
... and nontreated lesions with regards to mean TV and mean tumor ADC at baseline was non significant (p> 0.25) The change in mean TV (p = 0.007) and mean tumor ADC (p < 0.001) differed significantly ... area of irradiation induced reversible hepatocyte dysfunction Figure Boxplot depicting changes of mean volume of nontreated and treated tumors at early and follow-up MRI compared to baseline MRI ... follow-up MRI compared to baseline MRI Boxplot illustrates changes of mean ADC of non-treated and treated colorectal liver metastases days (early MRI) as well as months (follow-up MRI) following...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20
An evaluation of the material “basic english iii” for the second year non- english major students at bac giang teachers’ training college
... requirements of the course * Organization and Sequence of content Organization and sequence of the textbook content implies how the content of the individual unit is organized and sequenced in a unit Answers ... which is based on an analysis of the teaching material, and the requirements of the course Therefore document analysis of this study was the analysis of the course syllabus and the material “Basic ... adaptation plays an important part in the process of language teaching and learning It makes the teaching materials more relevant to the needs of students and to the objectives of the course, and therefore,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50