Users often abbreviate long words when using spoken dialogue systems, which results in automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors. We define abbreviated words as sub-words of an original word and add them to the ASR dictionary. The first problem we face is that proper nouns cannot be correctly segmented by general morphological analyzers, although long and compound words need to be segmented in ...

The dialogue between knowledge, pedagogies and didactic resources gives meaning to learning. This learning when integrated in a transdisciplinary environment enhances the holistic development of child. study is part Master’s Degree Education 1st Cycle Basic Portuguese History Geography Portugal 2nd Education, IFITIC Project "Innovate with ICT Initial Teacher Training Promote Methodological Rene...

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...

Models for teaching programming have been suggested in the literature. Interviews of teachers indicate that they normally do not relate to such models. Since referring explicitly to didactic models in teaching may improve learning, using models seems preferable. Models concerning learning and teaching are suggested in the paper.

In this paper, the qualifications considered essential by teaching professionals to be effective in pedagogical and didactic work are put together based on the results of a national survey carried out in Greece, to which secondary education teachers of all subjects contributed. One of the aims of this study was to systematically record the qualifications deemed essential by teachers for them to...

OBJECTIVES the abbreviated mental test is widely used in the assessment of cognitive impairment in elderly patients. However, many doctors do not administer the full 10 questions, preferring to estimate the patient's score instead. We have studied the accuracy of doctors in predicting patients' abbreviated mental test scores. METHODS we assessed 102 patients in the geriatric unit. We asked do...

The objective of this study was to analyze how Didactic Culture influences the faculty performance in a business administration program. In order to achieve that goal, it was necessary to create the concept of Didactic Culture. The instrument used for data collection was the in-depth interview. The research problem: How does didactic culture influence teacher performance in a business administr...

PHYSIOLOGY TEACHING often comprises of a large percentage of didactic lectures. A 1-h didactic lecture is often much longer than the average attention span of most students (2). It is preferable to use different methods to decrease the possible monotony of the didactic lecture (1). This is even more important when the topic being discussed has a greater number of facts that require memorizing. ...

This study investigated the influence of book genre (narrative or didactic) on mothers’ language use during a book sharing interaction with their 18to 25-month-olds. Motherchild dyads were videotaped sharing both a narrative and a didactic book, adapted from two commercially-available books, and matched in terms of length, quantity of text, and target content. A greater proportion of mothers’ t...