Taskflow-oriented programming merges concepts from structured programming, hardware description, and mark-up languages. A mark-up language such as XML supports a well-defined schema that can capture the decomposition of a program into a hierarchy of tasks. A hardware description language such as VHDL relies on well-defined and explicit input/output port definitions to create, at any level of hi...

The present study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of different types of pragmatic instruction including two collaborative translation tasks and two structured input tasks with and without explicit pragmatic instruction on the production of apologetic utterances by low-intermediate EFL learners. One hundred and fifty university students in four experimental groups and one control ...

The NIL entry for the challenge has been constructed upon the general architecture for developing Natural Language Generation systems provided by the TAP project (Gervás, 2007). TAP (Text Arranging Pipeline) is a set of interfaces that define generic functionality for a pipeline of tasks oriented toward natural language generation, from an initial conceptual input to surface realization as a st...