v Script 1 (“viral”), for which the complaint was “Since yesterday I have had a headache, fever (around 40°C), sweating, and chills. For several days, I have had a cough and a runny nose. This morning, I felt discomfort in my throat, hoarseness, generalized weakness, and muscle pains, and I took paracetamol.” v Script 2 (“bacterial”), for which the complaint was “Since yesterday, my throat has ...

Test Cases 1. Model Test Script Generator 3. Concretize 2. Generate

Listening comprehension is at the heart of language learning (Kurita, 2012). It is an importantlanguage skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA) (Dunkel, 1991; Rost,2001; Vandergrift, 2007).In spite of its importance, L2 learners often regard listening as themost difficult language skill to learn. In this study, shadowing as an act or task in listening, inwhich the learner...

traditional calligraphy is known as one of the most valuable islamic arts which always contains unknown parts. one of these parts is uncommon and unknown scripts of manuscripts. in iran, given to the valuation of writing and manuscript as well as the presence of various art schools in different islamic centuries, many manuscripts have been written and collected which now many of these works are...

Educational discourse is an important area for impact, which is especially timely given recent attention given to online education. In this talk I will first present a theoretical account of the complex interplay between written or oral discourse, individual cognitive processes, and external guidance in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments. Based on the Script Theory of...

This paper outlines a proposal for an expert system, AKT-R4, which will be the fourth iteration of the Refiner series. Unlike previous iterations, AKTR4 will include a non-deterministic feature which will enable it to better handle noisy datasets by generating category descriptions with ‘fuzzy’ boundaries. The AKT-R4 system will be based on a case-based algorithm focussed on performing a classi...

This study extends humor theory to explain puns originating from orthographic conversion in Japanese computermediated communication (CMC). Standard word-processing software converts Romanized input to appropriate orthographic output consisting of phono-graphic kana and ideographic kanji. Such software may produce an output often semantically incongruent with the intended output, which can be hu...