Canonical abstract prototypes are an innovative means for specifying and exploring visual and interaction design ideas. Intermediate between abstract task models and realistic or representational prototypes, canonical abstract prototypes provide designers with a standardized vocabulary for expre ssing visual and interaction designs independent of details of appearance and behavior. This common ...

abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

Late talkers (LTs) — children who show a marked delay in vocabulary learning — have also been shown to differ from normally-developing (ND) children with respect to the semantic organization of their learned vocabulary. We use a computational model of word learning to study how individual differences between LTs and NDs give rise to differences in abstract knowledge of categories emerging from ...

We address the problem of contour-based perceptual grouping using a user-defined vocabulary of simple part models. We train a family of classifiers on the vocabulary, and apply them to a region oversegmentation of the input image to detect closed contours that are consistent with some shape in the vocabulary. Given such a set of consistent cycles, they are both abstracted and categorized throug...

Scenes Vocabulary The abstract scenes interface developed by Antol et al. [1] consists of 20 “deformable” humans, 31 animals in different poses, and about 100 objects that can be found in indoor scenes (e.g., couch, picture, doll, door, window, plant, fireplace) or outdoor scenes (e.g., tree, pond, sun, clouds, bench, bike, campfire, grill, skateboard). In addition to the 8 different expression...

abstract the present study was carried out to investigate the effect of short stories on students’ reading comprehension, vocabulary power and attitude towards the skill and the new instructional materials. the participants of the study were 120 grade 9 students of dilla secondary and preparatory school. in order to gather data for the study, pre- and posttest of reading comprehension, pre and ...

Community-generated text corpora can be a valuable resource to extract consumer health vocabulary (CHV) and link them to professional terminologies and alternative variants. In this research, we propose a pattern-based text-mining approach to identify pairs of CHV and professional terms from Wikipedia, a large text corpus created and maintained by the community. A novel measure, leveraging the ...

This paper provides the preliminary result in our experiments to automatically assign MeSH terms to MEDLINE abstracts. Every year about 100,000 documents are added to MEDLINE, index terms are assigned by hand to each document from a controlled vocabulary called MeSH. This is necessarily time consuming and may lead to inconsistent indexing due to the large size of MeSH. Our purpose is to explore...

2 Static Algebras and Updates 4 2.1 Static Algebras: Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Vocabularies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Definition of Static Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4 Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...