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ICWL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Microblogging for Language Learning: Using Twitter to Train Communicative and Cultural Competence
Abstract. Our work analyzes the usefulness of microblogging in second language learning using the example of the social network Twitter. Most learners of English do not require eve...
Kerstin Borau, Carsten Ullrich, Jinjin Feng, Ruimi...
ESANN
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Approximately unbiased estimation of conditional variance in heteroscedastic kernel ridge regression
In this paper we extend a form of kernel ridge regression for data characterised by a heteroscedastic noise process (introduced in Foxall et al. [1]) in order to provide approxima...
Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Robert J. Fo...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Learning sign language by watching TV (using weakly aligned subtitles)
The goal of this work is to automatically learn a large number of British Sign Language (BSL) signs from TV broadcasts. We achieve this by using the supervisory information avai...
Patrick Buehler (University of Oxford), Mark Everi...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Learning a common language through an emergent interaction topology
We study the effects of various emergent topologies of interaction on the rate of language convergence in a population of communicating agents. The agents generate, parse, and lea...
Samarth Swarup, Kiran Lakkaraju, Les Gasser
BDA
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Hyperplane Queries in a Feature-Space M-tree for Speeding up Active Learning
In content-based retrieval, relevance feedback (RF) is a noticeable method for reducing the “semantic gap” between the low-level features describing the content and the usually...
Michel Crucianu, Daniel Estevez, Vincent Oria, Jea...