the research was aimed at finding out the effects of the implementation of writing feedback techniques and students’ writing anxiety on students’ writing ablity. experimental method of 3x2 factorial design was employed in the research. there were three experimental groups of students who were taught by using teacher feedback, peer feedback and the combination of peer and teacher feedback writin...

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Public debate functions as a forum for both expressing and forming opinions, an important aspect of public life. We present results for automatically classifying posts in online debate as to the position, or STANCE that the speaker takes on an issue, such as Pro or Con. We show that representing the dialogic structure of the debates in terms of agreement relations between speakers, greatly impr...

Citation Grosz, Barbara, Norman Hass, Gary Hendrix, Jerry Hobbs, Paul Martin, Robert Moore, Jane Robinson, and Stanley Rosenschein. 1982. DIALOGIC: A core natural-language processing system. In COLING 82: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, July 5-10, 1982, Prague, ed. International Conference on Computational Linguistics, and Ján Horecký, 95-100, Nor...

modernity has been interpreted from different angles. scholars such as derida and lyotard talk about the end of modernity and the beginning of a new era called post-modernism, though thinkers like habermas do not believe in that.habermas who do not believe in the end of modernity and the beginning of post-modernism, finds modernism as the only way to human liberty who has chosen a wrong path an...

In this paper we examine the nature of the competences needed for promoting innovation and change. Taking our experiences as the starting point, we examined the literature and interviewed managers and those responsible for innovation in enterprises and discovered that our research findings contradict the simplistic view of innovation facilitation and management material in the work place. Our r...

INTRODUCTION • Although we are highly efficient at recognizing faces, we find it remarkably difficult to describe them to others, posing a challenge for forensic sciences. • This difficulty stems in part from the problem of expressing configural information about faces in words. • Previous research has shown that when interlocutors encounter a domain for which they have only vague descriptions,...