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Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance of many visionlanguage tasks, such as image-text retrieval, visual entailment, and visual reasoning. The pre-training mostly utilizes lexical databases and image queries in English. Previous w ...
Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023Inclusive engineering classrooms: student teaching assistants' perspectives
Siara Ruth Isaac, Helena Kovacs, Joelyn de Lima
Inclusive teaching is the intentional practice of recognising biases, working to mitigate their impact, and ensuring that students have equitable learning opportunities. In addition to improving students' sense of belonging and self efficacy, inclusive tea ...
TU Dublin2023Single-fraction radiosurgery outcomes for large vestibular schwannomas in the upfront or post-surgical setting: a systematic review and International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS) Practice Guidelines
PurposeTo perform a systematic review of literature specific to single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for large vestibular schwannomas (VS), maximum diameter >= 2.5 cm and/or classified as Koos Grade IV, and to present consensus recommendations o ...
New York2023Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems
Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...
EPFL2023Automated Essay Scoring in Foreign Language Students Based on Deep Contextualised Word Representations
We introduce a method for automated grading of handwritten essays written by foreign language learners of French. The handwriting recognition system allows digitising the essays for further processing and functions at a low character error rate. The transc ...
2020Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmark for Air-Traffic Communications
Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) over the last decade opened new areas of speech-based automation such as in Air-Traffic Control (ATC) environments. Currently, voice communication and Controller Pilot Data Link Communications are the only way ...
ISCA2020Developing teacher agency through dialogue
Based on the experiences of a group of mainstream primary teachers of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners in Ireland, a dialogic inquiry has the potential to influence perceptions regarding teacher agency. The participants examined their pract ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019Visualizing constructive alignment in the process of course design
Course design in higher education is often approached in a very linear and text-based manner. The paper presents a visual tool in the form of a canvas aimed at accompanying teachers in the design of courses. The canvas can be used in an individual or co-te ...
UNIV POLITECNICA VALENCIA2019Software training for the next generation of physicists: joint experience of LHCb and ALICE
The need for good software training is essential in the HEP community. Unfortunately, current training is non -homogeneous and the definition of a common baseline is unclear, making it difficult for newcomers to proficiently join large collaborations such ...
E D P SCIENCES2019Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers
As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known about why users read Wikipedia's various language editions. To bridge this gap, ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019