An Investigation of the Process of Developing the I.R. Iran’s National Curriculum N. Salsabili, Ph.D. Developing curricula has a complex process in which many needs assessments and pathological studies are conducted before a program is designed. To ascertain that such a process was undertaken in the case of recently designed national curriculum in Iran, a field study consisting ...

This study set out to explore the impact of three levels of task planning on the accuracy of task-based oral performance with narrative task types among sixty Iranian sophomores majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Islamic Azad University – Tabriz Branch. It was hypothesized that simultaneous pre-task/on-line planning would lead to more accurate performance. To test the ...

Abstract Task planning is a crucial component in facilitating robot multi-task manipulations. Language-based task methods offer practicality receiving commands from humans real-life scenarios and require only low-cost labeled data. However, existing often rely on sequence models for planning, which primarily focus mapping language to sequences of sub-tasks while neglecting the knowledge about t...

Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with techniques that can provide effective access to large databases of objects that contain primarily text. It is generally assumed that there is a wide variety of users and a large number of potential queries. Although these characteristics are different than those of a typical case-based reasoning (CBR) application, there are opportunities for integrat...

This paper presents a system for video shot retrieval in which shots are retrieved based on matching video objects using a combination of colour, shape and texture. Rather than matching on individual objects, our system supports sets of query objects which in total reflect the user’s object-based information need. Our work also adapts to a shifting user information need by initiating the partit...