As one attack on the “knowledge acquisition bottleneck”, we are attempting to exploit a largely untapped source of general knowledge in texts, lying at a level beneath the explicit assertional content. This knowledge consists of relationships implied to be possible in the world, or, under certain conditions, implied to be normal or commonplace in the world. The goal of the work reported is to d...

The paper presents the Loquendo TTS approach to mixedlanguage speech synthesis, offering a range of options to face the various situations where texts may occur in different languages or embedding foreign phrases. The most challenging target is to make a monolingual TTS voice read a foreign language text. The adopted Foreign Pronunciation Strategy here discussed allows mixing phonetic transcrip...

this research aimed to review the use of second-person reference in advertisement translation, work out the general rules, and provide guidance to translators. using second-person reference is common in the advertising discourse. addressing audiences directly involves their attention and in this way enhances their memorization of the advertised message. second-person reference can be realized v...

This article analyzes research on Social Skills (HS) in the educational context correlated to academic performance. For this, it describes and studies selected from searches databases. A systematic review was carried out databases: Google academic, LILACS, Scielo Capes. The criterion for selecting texts adapt guiding question of present study, which included: 08 theoretical studies, 13 data col...

The technological and social shifts of the past several decades have brought about new modes of learning, participation and civic engagement. As young people work, play and socialize in online spaces, the academic community is exploring the challenges and possibilities of education in the digital age. New definitions of literacy emerge to address the importance of digital skills, play and colla...

plagiarism is considered to be a very serious offence in most academic communities, particularly among western academia. there has been much discussion regarding the influential factors which result in plagiarism, such as ignorance and cultural attitudes. in the case of efl/esl students, it has been suggested that acts of plagiarism are often committed because students lack the proficiency to p...

The basic aim of the model proposed here is to automatically build semantic metatext structure for texts that would allow us to search and extract discourse and semantic information from texts indexed in that way. This model is built up from two engines: The first engine, called EXCOM (Djioua et al., 2006), is an XML based system for an automatic annotation of texts according to discourse and s...