Enrichment exercises in spelling for grades two, three, and four

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Middletonian stylistics

Surveys Middleton's use of language

A rating scale for measuring the validity of reading instructional materials for the use of minority groups

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

The design and execution of a book of children\u27s verse

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A rating scale for measuring the validity of reading instructional materials for the use of minority groups

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Young men have always wanted to rush into print: a note on Denis Glover's writings on typography

Denis Glover was a self-assessed expert on typography. This article reviews Glover’s education and training as a typographer and discusses his four accessible published articles. The article then assesses his contribution to the establishment of higher standards of type selection and use in the post-WWII period, particularly for book work. The 'new' typography he and others promoted is now the established typography.Lindsay Rollo, a retired one-time technical editor, is now an independent researcher.Correspondence about this article may be directed to the author at [email protected]

Self-Supervised and Controlled Multi-Document Opinion Summarization

We address the problem of unsupervised abstractive summarization of collections of user generated reviews with self-supervision and control. We propose a self-supervised setup that considers an individual document as a target summary for a set of similar documents. This setting makes training simpler than previous approaches by relying only on standard log-likelihood loss. We address the problem of hallucinations through the use of control codes, to steer the generation towards more coherent and relevant summaries.Finally, we extend the Transformer architecture to allow for multiple reviews as input. Our benchmarks on two datasets against graph-based and recent neural abstractive unsupervised models show that our proposed method generates summaries with a superior quality and relevance.This is confirmed in our human evaluation which focuses explicitly on the faithfulness of generated summaries We also provide an ablation study, which shows the importance of the control setup in controlling hallucinations and achieve high sentiment and topic alignment of the summaries with the input reviews.Comment: 18 pages including 5 pages appendi

Reading in the language arts for primary deaf children

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit