Working within a task-based approach to the teaching of speaking, two interactive whiteboard-based pre-task activities focusing on different phases of the speech production process (Levelt, 1989) were developed and compared with an activity based on the speaking activities currently offered in English as a foreign language course books. The first activity, Dialogue Expansion, was based on expan...

Text editing exemplifies the type of computer application that exploits a computer’s nonnumerical capabilities and characteristics, specifically, its capability to store and di,splay data, handle abstract and complex data structures, and react immediately on command. Indeed, a steadily increasing degree of interactivity has characterized the development of new computer applications over the yea...

This paper describes an improvement to the Poisson image editing method for seamless cloning. Our approach is based on minimizing an energy expression invariant to relighting. The improved method reconstructs seamlessly the selected region, matching both pixel values and texture contrast of the surrounding area, while previous algorithms matched pixel values only. Our algorithm solves a deeper ...

Translation and editing may be defined as highly similar practices yielding an independent text that bears a relationship to other texts. This article offers examples from the author’s ongoing project A Sauvage Reader demonstrate how it possible emphasize bonds of correspondence emerge, via translation editing, between texts, opposed anxieties about search for fidelity definitive text.

The paper describes extraction of Estonian multi-word verbs from text corpora, using a languageand task-specific software tool SENVA, which is based on a statistical language-independent software tool SENTA (Dias et al, 2000). The outcome is a comprehensive list of 16,000 phrasal verbs. We describe the extraction tool, manual post-editing principles, and evaluate the outcome in terms of precisi...

Integration of text and documents into database management systems has been the subject of much research. However, most of the approaches are limited to data retrieval. Collaborative text editing, i.e. the ability for multiple users to work on a document instance simultaneously, is rarely supported. Also, documents mostly consist of plain text only, and support very limited meta data storage or...