Considering that the digital system design is a complex task, in order to meet some requirements such as effective performance, low costs and high reliability, and improve the development quality and efficiency, design activities need to be carried out under a precise description for completing the design cycle. This paper presents the XML specification method, and defines a subset of XML synta...

Abstract This study investigated the validity of processability theory proposed by Pienemann (1998/2015) among Iranian EFL learners’ oral performance. The theory defines six procedural stages for learners in the process of second language acquisition. In order to conduct the study, 10 intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test. Then, they partici...

background: human error is the most important cause of occupational and non-occupational accidents. because, it seems necessary to identify, predict and analyze human errors, and also offer appropriate control strategies to reduce errors which cause adverse consequences, the present study was carried out with the aim of identifying human errors while operating meat grinder and offer suggestions...

The OFAI Multimodal Task Description Corpus (OFAI-MMTD Corpus) is a collection of dyadic teacher-learner (human-human and human-robot) interactions. The corpus is multimodal and tracks the communication signals exchanged between interlocutors in task-oriented scenarios including speech, gaze and gestures. The focus of interest lies on the communicative signals conveyed by the teacher and which ...

In many knowledge based systems the application domain is modeled in an object centered formalism Research in knowledge acquisition has given evi dence that this approach allows one to adequately model the conceptual struc tures of human experts However when a novice user wants to describe a particular task to be solved by such a system he has to be well acquainted with the underlying domain mo...

In this paper, we describe the OPI system participating in the Semeval-2014 task 3 Cross-Level Semantic Similarity. Our approach is knowledge-poor, there is no exploitation of any structured knowledge resources as Wikipedia, WordNet or BabelNet. The method is also fully unsupervised, the training set is only used in order to tune the system. System measures the semantic similarity of texts usin...