Jeremy Cross Nanyang Technological University Informed by dual coding theory, this study explores the role of the visual content in L2 listeners’ comprehension of news videotexts. L1 research into the visual characteristics and comprehension of news videotexts is outlined, subsequently informing the quantitative analysis of audiovisual correspondence in the news videotexts used. In each of five...

COMPREHENDING SPOKEN WORDS WITHOUT HEARING PHONEMES: A CASE STUDY Charlotte Jacquemot1, Emmanuel Dupoux1, Christophe Pallier4 and Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi1,2,3 (1Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS-CNRS. Paris, France; 2Unité de Neuropsychologie, Service de Neurologie. CHU Henri Mondor, AP/HP, Créteil, France; 3INSERM U-421-IM3. Faculté de Médecine Paris XII, Crét...

In this paper, we consider the problem of machine reading task when the questions are in the form of keywords, rather than natural language. In recent years, researchers have achieved signi€cant success on machine reading comprehension tasks, such as S‹AD and TriviaQA. Œese datasets provide a natural language question sentence and a pre-selected passage, and the goal is to answer the question a...

Spreadsheets are computer programs. However, as with programs written in traditional programming languages, it is very difficult to understand a spreadsheet created by others. This is because spreadsheet users normally view the superficial numerical (value) view of spreadsheets although computations are specified through “hidden” cell formulas. The cell formulas also define the data-flow struct...

The majority of the algorithms used to solve hard optimization problems today are population metaheuristics. These methods are often presented under a purely algorithmic angle, while insisting on the metaphors which led to their design. We propose in this article to regard population metaheuristics as methods making evolution a probabilistic sampling of the objective function, either explicitly...

ÐAlthough prior research has compared modeling performance using different systems development methods, there has been little research examining the comprehensibility of models generated by those methods. In this paper, we report the results of an empirical study comparing user comprehension of object-oriented (OO) and process-oriented (PO) models. The fundamental difference is that while OO mo...