Robust Spoken Language Understanding for House Service Robots

Service robotics has been growing significantly in thelast years, leading to several research results and to a numberof consumer products. One of the essential features of theserobotic platforms is represented by the ability of interactingwith users through natural language. Spoken commands canbe processed by a Spoken Language Understanding chain, inorder to obtain the desired behavior of the robot. The entrypoint of such a process is represented by an Automatic SpeechRecognition (ASR) module, that provides a list of transcriptionsfor a given spoken utterance. Although several well-performingASR engines are available off-the-shelf, they operate in a generalpurpose setting. Hence, they may be not well suited in therecognition of utterances given to robots in specific domains. Inthis work, we propose a practical yet robust strategy to re-ranklists of transcriptions. This approach improves the quality of ASRsystems in situated scenarios, i.e., the transcription of roboticcommands. The proposed method relies upon evidences derivedby a semantic grammar with semantic actions, designed tomodel typical commands expressed in scenarios that are specificto human service robotics. The outcomes obtained throughan experimental evaluation show that the approach is able toeffectively outperform the ASR baseline, obtained by selectingthe first transcription suggested by the AS

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEAKY APPLICATIONS IN LEARNING ENGLISH IN INTRODUCTION MATERIALS FOR CLASS X SMA NEGERI 1 HALONGONAN

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the speaky model in learning English for Introduction material for class X. The approach used in this research is a quantitative approach. The population in this study were all students of Halongoan 1 Public High School, while the sample of this study was students of class X MIS 1 as an experimental class. Data collection techniques used are test techniques and non-test techniques. The test technique is in the form of an introduction material test and non-test techniques in the form of observations, questionnaires, interviews and documentation. The results of the analysis of the data obtained show that the results of the t test show the price of tcount>ttable, namely tcount = 3.3669 while ttable with dk = 64 at a significant level of 1% = 2.6548, because tcount>ttable is 3.3669 <2.6548 .this means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) which reads that the Speaky Application is effective in learning English for Introduction material to class X students of SMA Negeri 1 Halongoan can be accepted and the data is significant. The average value of learning using the speaky application has increased. The value obtained by the experimental class is the highest value is 93, the lowest value is 60 and the average is 82.57. Improving the learning outcomes of the introduction material using the speaky application is due to the application of the students directly practicing English with native speakers so that students can find out the points of error in pronunciation and writing. Compared to the contextual learning carried out by the previous teacher, the vocabulary obtained by students is more limited and monotonous so that students are less developed. Key Word :Speaky Application, Learning English, Introductio

Speakin' and Spokin' in Jamaica: Conflict and Consensus in Sociolinguistics

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Exploring English Learners’ Experiences of Using Mobile Language Learning Applications

Mobile language learning applications provide the potential to transform the way language is learned and it has been used for various purposes including language learning improvement. This investigation will contribute to which applications can support and be appropriate for students in learning English and explore more students’ experiences in using them. This research aimed to explore English learners’ experience of using Mobile Language Learning Applications in an informal learning context. This research employed a descriptive qualitative design with 25 college students. They share their experiences of using Mobile Language Learning Applications to learn English outside the classroom. The instrument used was an interview. The finding of this research showed all the participants confirm that they use mobile language learning to support their learning in English outside the classroom well which involves easy access to the materials, flexible place and time, and sophisticated features of the applications make students explore more and more learning English on the applications and they feel enjoy and fun regulate their learning pattern whenever and where ever, they find progress in learning English after they explore the apps, and students feel free to self-learning with their mobile device. It can be concluded that using Mobile Language Learning Applications outside the classroom allows learners to practice all the areas of English and these applications really supported learners’ experience to learn English based on their needs and self-learning

The Use of ICT in the Implementation of Autonomous Learning: Students’ Perception

This qualitative study investigates how students use ICT to support their independent learning in English. The participants of this study were 5th-semester students who were taking the Cross-Cultural Understanding subject, totaling 117 students. The data were collected using a questionnaire via Google Form and distributed in the first week of the CCU lectures. This study has two main findings. The first finding concerns the applications used in implementing independent learning, categorized into five categories: chat and messages, social media, online games, learning apps, and others. The second finding focuses on the activities conducted by students in their independent learning. The questionnaire results identified twenty activities grouped into five categories: listening, writing, speaking, reading, and others. Furthermore, listening was the most frequently reported activity among students in independent learnin

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Alien Registration- Boyle, George H. (Madison, Somerset County)

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Alien Registration- Rogers, Ernest (Eustis, Franklin County)

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Alien Registration- Veillieux, Mary J. (Waterville, Kennebec County)

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