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Stars and saints: professional conversations for enhancing classroom practices
This paper explores a reflective activity - professional conversation. In so doing, it recalls the recent experience of working alongside 'starring' teachers who are dedicated to serving the poor in areas of deprivation. And this recollection is framed around the advice of saints - secular, religious and philosophical
Lubricating the rough grounds: the case of Panag Kalangkang
PanagKalangkang is a small fishing community in Sta. Cruz, Marinduque. Viewed as rough ground, life there is an everyday struggle where, from their need to survive, people have to negotiate and adjust. In this paper, the author attempts to draw on the idea of ârough groundsâ as locus theologicus and thereby contribute towards a theological methodology sourced from the praxis of the margins, where people find themselves in the midst of friction between the dominant forces of structure/system and the dearth of the ground. To better facilitate the analysis of the frictional dynamics at the ground, this paper makes use of a heuristic device that borrows fundamental ideas from the science of lubricated friction, a branch of engineering science called tribology. It has been discovered that the peculiarity of that locus has implications for theological methodology. Anecdotal narratives of the authorâs field research in selected BECs in the Diocese of Boac, Marinduque are integrated to provide concrete âcorporealâ structure to an otherwise theoretical abstraction
'There's the record, closed and final':Rough for Theatre II as Psychiatric Encounter
A co-authored collaboration between a theatre practitioner and a clinical psychiatrist, this paper will examine Rough for Theatre II (RFTII) and Beckettâs demonstration of the way records are used to understand the human subject. Using Beckettâs play to explore interdisciplinary issues of embodiment and diagnosis, the authors will present a dialogue that makes use of the âbest sourcesâ in precisely the same manner as the playâs protagonists. One of those sources will be Beckett himself, as Heron will locate the play in its theatrical context through reflections upon his own practice (with Fail Better Productions, UK) as well as recent studies such as Beckett, Technology and the Body (Maude 2009) and Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckettâs Drama (McMullan 2010); another source will be the philosopher Wilhelm Windleband, whose 1901 History of Philosophy was read and noted upon by Beckett in the 1930s, as Broome will introduce a philosophical and psychiatric context to the exchange. Windelband is now a neglected figure in philosophy; but as one of the key figures of Neo-Kantianism in the late 19(th) century, his work was an important impetus to that of Rickert, Weber and Heidegger. Specifically, Windelband gives us the distinction between idiographic and nomothetic understanding of individuals, an approach that is of relevance to the psychiatric encounter. This academic dialogue will consider tensions between subjectivity and objectivity in clinical and performance practice, while examining Beckettâs analysis of the use of case notes and relating them back to Windelbandâs ideas on the understanding of others. The dialogue took place in 2011 at the University of Warwick, and has since been edited by the authors
Unsupervised Learning of Style-sensitive Word Vectors
This paper presents the first study aimed at capturing stylistic similarity
between words in an unsupervised manner. We propose extending the continuous
bag of words (CBOW) model (Mikolov et al., 2013) to learn style-sensitive word
vectors using a wider context window under the assumption that the style of all
the words in an utterance is consistent. In addition, we introduce a novel task
to predict lexical stylistic similarity and to create a benchmark dataset for
this task. Our experiment with this dataset supports our assumption and
demonstrates that the proposed extensions contribute to the acquisition of
style-sensitive word embeddings.Comment: 7 pages, Accepted at The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018
Centering, Anaphora Resolution, and Discourse Structure
Centering was formulated as a model of the relationship between attentional
state, the form of referring expressions, and the coherence of an utterance
within a discourse segment (Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1986; Grosz, Joshi and
Weinstein, 1995). In this chapter, I argue that the restriction of centering to
operating within a discourse segment should be abandoned in order to integrate
centering with a model of global discourse structure. The within-segment
restriction causes three problems. The first problem is that centers are often
continued over discourse segment boundaries with pronominal referring
expressions whose form is identical to those that occur within a discourse
segment. The second problem is that recent work has shown that listeners
perceive segment boundaries at various levels of granularity. If centering
models a universal processing phenomenon, it is implausible that each listener
is using a different centering algorithm.The third issue is that even for
utterances within a discourse segment, there are strong contrasts between
utterances whose adjacent utterance within a segment is hierarchically recent
and those whose adjacent utterance within a segment is linearly recent. This
chapter argues that these problems can be eliminated by replacing Grosz and
Sidner's stack model of attentional state with an alternate model, the cache
model. I show how the cache model is easily integrated with the centering
algorithm, and provide several types of data from naturally occurring
discourses that support the proposed integrated model. Future work should
provide additional support for these claims with an examination of a larger
corpus of naturally occurring discourses.Comment: 35 pages, uses elsart12, lingmacros, named, psfi
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