"Welcome to my home page! I am an assistant professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. I work with Second Language Acquisition, Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL), and syntax. For more information about my research projects visit my research page. "
"When typing in Japanese, your iPhone uses names and readings from your address book as a kind of second dictionary for its text auto-complete. This was a very smart way to program the iPhone since the most common reason to use non-standard kanji/words to begin with is because they're used that way in a proper name (which, if it's someone/someplace/somewhere you know, would probably be in your address book anyway)."
"not every iPhone application can "learn" words. Notes seems to be brain-dead in that regard. At the same time, using Safari's Google text entry field worked every time, expanding the database and adding new items to my keyboard dictionary. "
"I previously wrote about an iPhone app called 辞書登録Lite (Jisho Tōroku) which allowed you to add words to the iPhone's Japanese dictionary and determine what yomigana input would trigger the kanji conversion. "
"NOTE: This DRAFT statement was first presented and reviewed by the ACTFL Assembly of Delegates in November, 2008. It has since been modified taking into account the comments of Delegates and the ACTFL Board. It is still in draft form and awaits further comments from ACTFL members before final revisions and approval by the ACTFL Board of Directors
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"Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
* It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection.
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Visuwords™ uses Princeton University's WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers."
"WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing."
"The Global WordNet Organization is pleased to post information about wordnets on its website and welcomes submissions reporting on relevant work. Strictly commercial efforts will not be posted. Open source efforts are strongly encouraged. We only post links to resources that follow the wordnet design, which includes * links to WordNet (Princeton or others that are linked to PWN); * WN structure (minimally: synset, hyponymy) "
"This project involves the construction of an Arabic WordNet, following the development process of Princeton WordNet and Euro WordNet. It utilizes the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology as an interlingua to link Arabic WordNet to previously developed wordnets."
Site that allows students to post their thesis statements and give feedback to each other by rating thesis statements as "hot" or "not," and making comments.
"Ipadio technology links up the telephone networks with the internet, enabling the live broadcast of audio directly to the internet… all from a standard phone. There's never been an easier way to record oral assessments, create revision podcasts, or even collect homework. The process involves a simple registration of your phone and the selection of a password. You are then given a toll free number to call, enter the password, and start recording. Your recording is instantly available as a phlog (phone blog) on your own channel at Ipadio. Don't have the cell phone you registered with Ipadio. There is an easy solution, just use any phone and complete the additional step of entering your registered phone number. After the recording you can visit your own channel and listen to the phlog, email it, embed it in a web page, or even download it as an mp3 to be used in your own multimedia application. You even have the opportunity to edit your phlog and make it public. Ipadio even converts the spoken words to text! Imagine the educational uses of that features. There is even an iPhone and Android app."
"Butns enables you to add more destinations to each hyperlink on your website, allowing your users to choose exactly where to go to get more information."
"Online education is booming, but not at elite universities-at least not when it comes to courses for credit. Leaders at the University of California want to break that mold. This fall they hope to put $5-million to $6-million into a pilot project that could clear the way for the system to offer online undergraduate degrees and push distance learning further into the mainstream. The vision is UC's most ambitious-and controversial-effort to reshape itself after cuts in public financial support have left the esteemed system in crisis."