The goal of this study was to track the steps of families that committed some kind of violence against their children and faced judicial intervention, as well as to explore their perceptions about the events involving such intervention; to quantify and assess the lawsuits, during the period from 2000 to 2005, characterizing situations of family violence and re-victimization. The study was theor...

This paper describes the Bar-Ilan system participating in the Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge. The paper proposes first a general probabilistic setting that formalizes the notion of textual entailment. We then describe a concrete alignment-based model for lexical entailment, which utilizes web co-occurrence statistics in a bag of words representation. Finally, we report the results of ...

This paper responds to criticism of some my work by Douglas Robinson. After pointing out factual problems in his response, I agree with Robinson that 2014 views on agency and com­plexity can be expanded, show how have done so since then. then engage the kind hermeneutics uses response work, arguing it is a contextless, affect-driven bases too much its argument matters identity. try explain what...

Within organizations, people learn through exchanging knowledge. This kind of task (named collaboration) is important for the organizational learning. Collaboration can be supported by Information Technology tools as chats, newsgroups, forums and e-mailing lists. However, this kind of support only enables message exchange, lacking to help people in the learning process. This work presents the a...

Artificial Intelligent systems can benefit from incorporating commonsense knowledge as background, such as ice is cold (HASPROPERTY), chewing is a sub-event of eating (HASSUBEVENT), chair and table are typically found near each other (LOCATEDNEAR), etc. This kind of commonsense facts have been utilized in many downstream tasks, such as textual entailment [4, 1] and visual recognition tasks [29]...

The aim of this article is to show the applicability an Analogic Hermeneutics in field Humanities. In fact, they operate interpreting texts, and that what hermeneutics teaches do. However, nowadays we find univocal hermenetics aequivocal hermeneutics, struggling among them, need analogical which can be intermediate. This way shall avoid univocism positivisms aequivocism posmodernisms. struggle ...

The present study attempted the relative effect of explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers on ESAP reading comprehension performance of Iranian university students through an awareness raising experiment. A sixty-item multiple choice ESAP reading comprehension test of accounting was developed and validated to act as the pre-test and post-test. The test included items for assessing sp...

The benefits of textual input enhancement in the acquisition of linguistic forms have produced mixed results in SLA literature. The present study investigates the effects of textual enhancement on adult foreign language intake of two English linguistic forms-subjunctive mood and inversion structures-to explore the role of the type of linguistic items in input enhancement studies. It also invest...