Creating an innovative mediator environment such as graphical user interfaces, lighter weight languages to help the users in the challenging task of making unambiguous requests is crucial in semantic web applications. The query language in the Virtual Query System (VQS) of the SemanticLIFE framework is designed for this purpose. The proposed query language namely Virtual Query Language (VQL) is...

Virtual Reality is an exciting technology that holds great promise for delivering innovative new ways for people with special needs to deal with information more easily. For instance, signing avatars are virtual human characters capable of performing sign language utterances in a three dimensional environment. They are actually used by deaf community for interpreting television news, teaching s...

This study aimed at providing learners with an opportunity not only to bring together their core and disciplinary knowledge to acquire major skills of learning English as a foreign language (EFL), and the intellectual challenge of these issues at the interface of media, language and religion, but also help the materials generators to produce suitable types of content to be delivered through the...

This specification describes how a simple, static form of virtual typing can be implemented in a parametrically polymorphic version of Java. We discuss the need for virtual types and the tradeoffs of integrating virtual types into a statically typed, objectoriented language. Though our discussion is couched in terms of Java Layers, the design can be used in more general settings.

XGIOTTO [5] is a domain specific language for the implementation of embedded software applications with hard temporal constraints. The language is an extension of the original GIOTTO language [6]. In this report we present the XGIOTTO tool chain, composed of the compiler and a specialized virtual machine, Embedded Virtual Machine (EVM). The compiler checks for determinism (absence of races) and...

We discuss interaction modalities in web-based virtual environments. We argue that the language behaviour of users in virtual environments differs essentially from language behaviour in the context of other spoken dialogue systems. Allowing different modalities will also ask for a model that allows user and system to expect that knowledge obtained from previous interactions is available to what...

This paper presents some of the overall frameworks and models for language learning that were used under Avalon (Access to Virtual and Action Learning live ONline), an EU cofunded project aimed at developing language-learning scenarios in virtual worlds. The introduction and background summarize some of the theories that constitute the starting points for the designs and are followed by a discu...

The aim was to investigate and assess the acceptance of virtual classes among Arabic language student teachers during beyond covid-19. Quantitative research is carried out with It uses a survey-based methodology obtain data from respondents. An online questionnaire used collect via Facebook WhatsApp groups. 450 responses were received. They 300 males (66.6%), 150 females (33.4%). Results indica...

The paper presents approaches to identifying realworld demographic attributes based on language use in the virtual world. We apply features developed from the classic literature on sociolinguistics and sound symbolism to data collected from virtual-world chat and avatar naming to determine participants’ age and gender. We also examine participants’ use of avatar names across virtual worlds and ...

We created a virtual human presenter based on extensions to the JackTM animated agent system. Inputs to the presenter system are in the form of speech texts with embedded commands, most of which relate to the virtual presenter's body language. The system then makes him act as a presenter with presentation skills in real-time 3D animation synchronized with speech outputs. He can make presentatio...