A rationale and design of a microcomputer system for schools and colleges

Imperial Users onl

Adopting Accessibility Guidelines for Videogames to Collectible Card Games

The development of accessible video games has been discussed through multiple publications in the 21st century; however, little to no attention has been given to non-electronic gaming. Like video games, Collectible Card Games (CCG) have also gained massive popularity, but no accessible guidelines have been created to help the disabled better play them. The need for inclusion in gaming is critical because it can act as a medium for social interaction and a learning tool for teaching. Today offers numerous technologies that can help those with disabilities, such as microcomputers, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Text to Speech, can all be used to help those with disabilities. In this thesis, we create a proof of concept Accessible Technology to help those with low vision play CGG and show that guidelines that worked for video games can be brought over to help with CCG. We use a Raspberry Pi 4B and the Raspberry Pi HQ camera module, Scene Text Detection, OCR, and Text to Speech to read the cards of a CCG. This AT acts similar to a microscope where it captures the image of a card, finds the card’s name, feeds it to a database query, and reads the record from the database to the player. We performed several evaluations where the participant played a game of Yugioh, followed by answering a questionnaire. We found in these evaluations that the AT was primarily successful, and the user problems come from poor text to speech and participants having a hard time remembering or comprehending card information

Dictionary-based Data Generation for Fine-Tuning Bert for Adverbial Paraphrasing Tasks

Recent advances in natural language processing technology have led to the emergence of large and deep pre-trained neural networks. The use and focus of these networks are on transfer learning. More specifically, retraining or fine-tuning such pre-trained networks to achieve state of the art performance in a variety of challenging natural language processing/understanding (NLP/NLU) tasks. In this thesis, we focus on identifying paraphrases at the sentence level using the network Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). It is well understood that in deep learning the volume and quality of training data is a determining factor of performance. The objective of this thesis is to develop a methodology for algorithmic generation of high-quality training data for paraphrasing task, an important NLU task, as well as the evaluation of the resulting training data on fine-tuning BERT to identify paraphrases. Here we will focus on elementary adverbial paraphrases, but the methodology extends to the general case. In this work, training data for adverbial paraphrasing was generated utilizing an Oxfordiii synonym dictionary, and we used the generated data to re-train BERT for the paraphrasing task with strong results, achieving a validation accuracy of 96.875%

Computer Assisted Language Learning in Esl: Concerns, Applications, and Future Prospects

Englis

Technologies in computerized lexicography

Since the early eighties, computer technology has become increasingly relevant to lexicography. Computer science will probably not be the only technological discipline which may have implications for future computerized lexicography. Some developments in the fields of language technology, information technology and knowledge engineering, may support lexicographical practice and enhance the quality of the resulting dictionary. The present paper discusses how the analysis and interpretation of electronic corpus data by the lexicographer may be improved by automatic linguistic analysis, by better access to the corpus, and by a more flexible communication with the computer system. As a frame of reference, first an indication of the state of the art in computerized lexicography will be given, by a concise discussion of three projects at the Institute for Dutch Lexicology INL considered in an international context: the conversion of the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal WNT (Dictionary of the Dutch Language Based on Historical Principles) to electronic form, the compilation of the Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek (Dictionary of Early Middle Dutch) in a computerized lexicographer's workbench, and the INL Taalbank (INL Language Database). Although the topic of this paper is technology, focus is on functional rather than technical aspects of computerized lexicography.Keywords: computerized lexicography, electronic dictionary, electronic text corpus, lexicographer's workbench, integrated language database, automatic linguistic analysis, information retrieval, user interfac

English for Geodesy and Land Management Students: tutorial.

English for Geodesy and Land Management Students is the manual for the students majoring in this specialty «Geodesy and Land Management» at higher education institutions and aimed at mastering the English language for specific purposes in this domain. The manual consists of 2 parts comprising the key theoretical issues students study at their special classes. The 1st part consists of 11 units. The 2nd part consists of 14 units. Each unit is designed in the way to provide students with the possibility to practice all language skills giving them flexibility in the field of future professional sphere. In the last part of the tutorial students can find texts for supplementary reading useful for efficient independent work

Research & scholarly achievements, July 1, 1983 - June 30, 1984

Annual summary of scholarly activities at UCF for the period from July 1, 1983 to June 30, 1984. This report highlights the contributions to scholarship by the Faculty during this period, including books and monographs, articles, creative works, presentations, grants and contracts

Reading "all about" computerization: five common genres of social analysis

This paper examines unstated, but critical, social assumptions which underlie analyses of computerization. It focuses on the popular, professional and scholarly literature which claims to describe the actual nature of computerization, the character of computer use, and the social choices and changes that result from computerization. This literature can be usefully segmented five ideal type genres: utopian, anti-utopian, social realism, social theory, and analytical reduction. Each genre is characterized and illustrated. The strengths and weaknesses of each genre are described. In the 1990s, there will be a large market for social analyses of computerization. Utopian analyses are most likely to domínate the popular and professional discourse. The empirically oriented accounts of social realism, social theory and analytical reduction, are likely to be much less common and also less commonly seen and read by computer professionals and policymakers. These genres are relatively subtle, portray a more ambiguous world, and have less rhetorical power to capture the imagination of readers. Even though they are more scientific, these empirically anchored genres don't seem to appeal to many scientists and engineers. It is ironic that computing -- often portrayed as an instrument of knowledge -- is primarily the subject of discourses whose knowledge claims are most suspect. Conversely, the discourses whose claims as valid knowledge are strongest seems to have much less appeal in the mass media and technological communities

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Instruction in General and Special Education: Thematic Units and Technology

This article discusses interdisciplinary thematic units in the context of special and general education curricula and focuses on ways technology can be used to enhance interdisciplinary thematic units. Examples of curriculum integration activities enhanced by technology are provided in the context of productivity tools, presentation and multimedia tools, contextual themed software, and Web-based activities.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline