A Script Language for Data Integration in Database

The Effectiveness of Shadow-Reading With and Without Written Script on Listening Comprehension of Iranian Intermediate EFL Students.

Listening comprehension is at the heart of language learning (Kurita, 2012). It is an importantlanguage skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA) (Dunkel, 1991; Rost,2001; Vandergrift, 2007).In spite of its importance, L2 learners often regard listening as themost difficult language skill to learn. In this study, shadowing as an act or task in listening, inwhich the learner...

Framework For Consistent Speech Databases

The introduced speech processing framework creates phonetically and prosodically annotated speech databases. It provides with structured data files in eXtensible Markup Language format. Those files include all available information about a recorded utterance inclusively the speech signal. A Document Type Definition (DTD) describes the data structure and provides with the possibilty of automatic...

A Case for the Integration of Content and Language Instructions in EFL Situation

A Description of the LAMB Web-Derived Language Model Builder

This paper describes the language modeling script constructed for the Spring 2000 Information Retrieval seminar. The script builds on Callan'ss1] work of automatically generating language models for text databases by creating language models for internet search engines. An overview of the work, principles and observed properties of language models, the language modeling script (LAMB) and its sh...

GML Documents: An approach for Database Schema Design and Storing

GML (Geography Markup Language) uses the XML pattern and it possesses mechanisms and conventions to describe geographical information. This paper describes a solution for the storage of GML documents in object-relational database management systems (ORDBMS) supplying the support for the metadata and allowing the integration of the delegated systems and geographical data (in the GML format ) in ...