PURPOSE To date there are only a few studies published, dealing with delirium in critically ill patients. The problem with these studies is that prevalence rates of delirium could only be estimated because of the lack of validated delirium assessment tools for the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU). The paediatric Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (pCAM-ICU) was specifi...

SGML and ODA are international standards for the markup and interchange of electronic documents. These standards are incompatible, in the sense that in general a document encoded using SGML cannot be used directly in an ODA-based system, and vice versa. We first describe these two standards, and suggest criteria under which a bridge between the two standards could be evaluated. We then evaluate...

game-based practicing of materials can be seen as a method of capturing an essence of real- life expe-rience which is commonly missing in the conventional face-to-face classrooms. to serve the l2 learn-ers' immediate communicative needs in wider classroom and societal contexts, this study sought to place l2 english learners within an interactional social framework through reinforcing their...

This paper reports on Language Computer Corporation’s QA@CLEF 2007 preparation, participation and results. For this exercise, LCC integrated its open-domain PowerAnswer Question Answering system with its statistical Machine Translation engine. For 2007, LCC participated in the English-to-French and English-to-Portuguese crosslanguage tasks. The approach is that of intermediate translation, only...

We present a new variant of the SyntaxAugmented Machine Translation (SAMT) formalism with a category-coarsening algorithm originally developed for tree-to-tree grammars. We induce bilingual labels into the SAMT grammar, use them for category coarsening, then project back to monolingual labeling as in standard SAMT. The result is a “collapsed” grammar with the same expressive power and format as...

This paper reports on Language Computer Corporation’s first QA@CLEF participation. For this exercise, we integrated our open-domain PowerAnswer question answering system with our statistical machine translation engine. For 2006, we participated in the English-to-Spanish, French and Portuguese cross-language tasks. We took the approach of intermediate translation, only processing English within ...

The present study aimed to investigate the reliability and factor structure of the self-regulating capacity in vocabulary learning strategies scale (SRCvoc) in the Iranian EFL context. To this end, the original (SRCvoc) questionnaire (Tseng, Dornyei, & Schmitt, 2006) was translated into Persian, using a translation/back-translation procedure. Then, the Persian version of the SRCVOC was piloted ...