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8 hours ago · Focusing on the oral competences of listening and speaking as well as successful FL communication, such a definition acknowledges the primacy of speech in (second) language acquisition (Banathy & Sawyer, 1969) and expands on Wilkinson’s original definition of the term as a counterpart to literacy in educational contexts.
Jun 9, 2024 · The task of Information Retrieval (IR) is to find item’s relevant to a user’s information need from a (very) large collection of documents. IR makes the most sense when there is far more information in a collection than can reasonably be consumed by an individual in a reasonable amount of time.
1 day ago · Originally, the language of the bill mentioned only "Hmong" people, intending to include the entire community. Several Mong Leng activists, led by Dr. Paoze Thao (Professor of Linguistics and Education at California State University, Monterey Bay), drew attention to the problems associated with omitting "Mong" from the language of the bill ...
8 hours ago · A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group of different sounds that are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound.
8 hours ago · Latin is a synthetic, fusional language in the terminology of linguistic typology. Words involve an objective semantic element and markers (usually suffixes) specifying the grammatical use of the word, expressing gender , number , and case in adjectives , nouns , and pronouns ( declension ) and verbs to denote person , number , tense , voice ...
8 hours ago · A contrasting method is to process natural language directly and build a very large statistical machine-learning model such as a large language model (LLM). LLMs are typically very big, hundreds of billions of parameters or more, running on specialist hardware. They are exceptionally expensive to train and run and require masses amounts of data.
8 hours ago · Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. [1] [2] It is the official system used in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and by the United Nations. Its use has become common when transliterating Standard Chinese mostly regardless ...
