: This paper presents a novel multi-lingual progress protocol generation module. The module is used within the speech-to--speech translation system VERBMOBIL. The task of the protocol is to give the dialogue partners a brief description of the content of their dialogue. We utilize an .abstract representation describing, for instance, thematic information and dialogue acts of the dialogue uttera...

: This paper presents a novel multi-lingual progress protocol generation module. The module is used within the speech-to--speech translation system VERBMOBIL. The task of the protocol is to give the dialogue partners a brief description of the content of their dialogue. We utilize an .abstract representation describing, for instance, thematic information and dialogue acts of the dialogue uttera...

This short paper explores the collective writing experiment that materialized into paper, “The Changing Map of International Student Mobility” (Peters, Hollings et al., 2021). It explains how 15 students Professor Michael A. Peters, each 500-word essays, were able to create a unique and diverse dialogue on international student mobility. By being reliant numerous perspectives, this offered more...

Recent development has identified the benefits of using hyper-temporal satellite time series data for land cover change detection and classification in South Africa. In particular, the monitoring of human settlement expansion in the Limpopo province is of relevance as it is the one of the most pervasive forms of land-cover change in this province which covers an area of roughly 125 000km. In th...

[1] Analyses of global climate from measurements dating back to the nineteenth century show an ‘Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation’ (AMO) as a leading large-scale pattern of multidecadal variability in surface temperature. Yet it is not possible to determine whether these fluctuations are genuinely oscillatory from the relatively short observational record alone. Using a 1400 year climate model ...

Writing is an important aspect in language teaching and learning in which teacher should continue developing some techniques in teaching writing so that students can improve and master their writing ability. Alwasilah (2001:37) states that the responsibility for developing a specific or a professional writing skill is in school hands. While Heaton (1998:138) supports the importance of writing b...

I N THEIR ARTICLE "Visions and Revisions: A Special Education Perspective on the Whole Language Controversy," the authors describe two highly polarized approaches to reading instruction: whole language and direct instruction. This topic is of special importance and interest to us because, like the authors, we have been working in special education settings with teachers who have been trying to ...