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Exploring Surprisal from Various Language Models for Predicting English Reading Times of People with Different Language Backgrounds
DownloadFall 2023
Surprisal estimated by language models is predictive of reading time in first-language (L1) reading. Research is emerging to determine whether this observation extends to reading in a second language (L2). Current attempts to characterize differences in the predictive power of surprisal for L1...
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Identifying negative language transfer in learner writing: using syntactic information to model structural differences
DownloadFall 2021
Second language learners transfer rules from their native languages when trying to communicate in the new language. When the transferred rules do not match the second language grammar, this reuse results in errors. Although this phenomenon is well known and documented by linguists and language...
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Recommender systems to support socio-collaborative learning in educational discussion forums
DownloadFall 2020
With the popularity of online education, many educational technologies have been introduced to support students' learning. Among them, asynchronous discussion forums are widely used to support students’ socio-collaborative learning processes. However, the forum's complex thread structure and...
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Sense of Community, Social Connections, and Collaborative Learning in Post-Secondary Computer-Science Education
DownloadFall 2024
In post-secondary education, sense of community supports student motivation, persistence, and well-being. However, students from underrepresented groups often have a lower sense of community than their peers. This issue is especially pronounced in the field of computer science, which, despite its...
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Southern Michif SoundHunters: A collaborative process of re-purposing an Indigenous language learning technology
DownloadFall 2022
Many of the Indigenous languages around the world and in Canada are endangered. Furthermore, many of these languages are low-resource and suffer from a lack of language-learning resources and technology that facilitate language revitalization. To help address this problem, we created the...