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    24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)

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    Inhibition in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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    Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental condition estimated to affect approximately 5.9 to 7.1 per cent of children and 5.29 per cent of adults worldwide (Willcutt, 2012). Whilst the aetiology of the disorder is unknown, ADHD is characterised by attention deficits, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. These symptoms often significantly impair an individual’s functioning in the domains of school, employment, home life, and general social settings. In this thesis, I investigated the effect of dysfunctional inhibition in individuals with ADHD. Specifically, bottom-up processes, such as motor inhibition, motor control, and attentional inertia, were investigated to see to what extent these processes are affected by inhibitory dysfunction. This essential process is impaired in individuals with ADHD. This was accomplished by a battery of tasks, including a motor inhibition task, two motor skills tasks, and an attentional inertia task. These tasks were indexed to a Stroop task to investigate the possibility of a general inhibitory dysfunction in both top-down and bottom-up processes. In addition, the motor inhibition and Stroop task were indexed to self-inventories commonly used to identify individuals with ADHD. Across these eight experiments, adolescent ADHD individuals, age-matched controls, and adults undertook various tasks designed to index automatic bottom-up motor inhibition. Results showed that, compared with controls, ADHD individuals did not exhibit usual levels of inhibition. However, higher-level cognitive inhibition, as measured with Stroop, was comparable with controls. Results also revealed a positive association, but not a statistically significant one, between the degree to which a person exhibits ADHD-like behaviour and the degree to which they lack automatic motor inhibition. I will later show that it is due to a specific diagnostic construct of ADHD that does not include motor difficulties. These data suggest that bottom-up inhibitory motor processes are an essential component of ADHD. I will argue that including dysfunctional motor inhibition complements current ADHD models, particularly those developed by Barkley (1997) and Nigg (2001)

    CLARIN

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    The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying technological infrastructure, the achievements of national consortia, and challenges that CLARIN will tackle in the future. The book is published 10 years after establishing CLARIN as an Europ. Research Infrastructure Consortium

    Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning

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    Edited by a diverse group of expert collaborators, the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning is a landmark volume that brings together cutting-edge research examining learning as entailing inherently cultural processes. Conceptualizing culture as both a set of social practices and connected to learner identities, the chapters synthesize contemporary research in elaborating a new vision of the cultural nature of learning, moving beyond summary to reshape the field toward studies that situate culture in the learning sciences alongside equity of educational processes and outcomes. With the recent increased focus on culture and equity within the educational research community, this volume presents a comprehensive, innovative treatment of what has become one of the field’s most timely and relevant topics

    CLARIN. The infrastructure for language resources

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    CLARIN, the "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure", has established itself as a major player in the field of research infrastructures for the humanities. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the organization, its members, its goals and its functioning, as well as of the tools and resources hosted by the infrastructure. The many contributors representing various fields, from computer science to law to psychology, analyse a wide range of topics, such as the technology behind the CLARIN infrastructure, the use of CLARIN resources in diverse research projects, the achievements of selected national CLARIN consortia, and the challenges that CLARIN has faced and will face in the future. The book will be published in 2022, 10 years after the establishment of CLARIN as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium by the European Commission (Decision 2012/136/EU)

    VARIATIONist Linguistics meets CONTACT Linguistics

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    The current volume is dedicated to the inherently heterogeneous nature of language(s) as seen from the perspective of variationist linguistics and contact linguistics, which became established and internationally recognized sub-disciplines of (socio)linguistics during the latter half of the 20th century. Over the last few years, each paradigm has broadened the spectrum of the topics under investigation considerably, but there has not yet been an extensive and satisfactory exchange between the two scientific fields named. The present volume aims at giving an insight into the complex synergy between occurring linguistic contact constellation, on the one hand, and variation in the parlance, on the other hand

    XVII. Magyar Szåmítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia

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    Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch: Results by the STEVIN-programme

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    Computational Linguistics; Germanic Languages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computing Methodologie
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