scholarly journals The effect of automated fluency-focused feedback on text production

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (vol. 13 issue 2) ◽  
pp. 231-255
Author(s):  
E. Dux Speltz ◽  
E. Chukharev-Hudilainen
Keyword(s):  
Text Production

Informed consent: Towards improved lay-friendliness of patient information sheets

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-211
Author(s):  
Morten Pilegaard ◽  
Hanne Berg Ravn
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Microsoft Word ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Linguistic Intervention ◽  
Set Up

Regional research ethics committee (REC) members have voiced a need for the linguistic improvement of informed consent documents to ensure duly informed consent and to ease committee deliberation. We have little knowledge of what elements of language use hamper comprehension, or of the extent of medical researchers’ appreciation of this problem and their willingness to accept intervention. This qualitative, explorative study proposes an intervention design and tests its feasibility and acceptability. Semi-structured interviews with potential REC applicants informed a linguistic intervention benchmarked against existing guidelines, mandated locally and nationally, and then evaluated quantitatively in a semi-controlled set-up and qualitatively via questionnaires. Potential applicants professed the psychological acceptability of linguistic intervention. The intervention comprised a downloadable Microsoft Word template outlining information structure, a detailed guideline offering advice for each move and self-selected linguistic screening. It was used by 14 applicants and had a measurable effect on REC deliberation time and approval rates. The intervention instruments overall made it easier for applicants to produce informed consent documents meeting prescribed ethical standards concerning lay-friendliness. In conclusion, it was found that linguistic intervention is relevant, feasible and psychologically acceptable to REC applicants; it aids their text production process and seems to enhance the lay-friendliness of these texts.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Otto
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Church Father ◽  
Intellectual Formation ◽  
The Relationship

Between the second and the sixteenth centuries CE, references to the Jewish exegete Philo of Alexandria occur exclusively in texts written by Christians. David T. Runia has described this phenomenon as the adoption of Philo by Christians as an “honorary Church Father.” Drawing on the work of Jonathan Z. Smith and recent investigations of the “Parting of the Ways” of early Christianity and Judaism, this study argues that early Christian invocations of Philo reveal ongoing efforts to define the relationship between Jewishness and Christianness, their areas of overlap and points of divergence. The introduction situates invocations of Philo within the wider context of early Christian writing about Jews and Jewishness. It considers how Philo and his early Christian readers participated in the larger world of Greco-Roman philosophical schools, text production, and the ethical and intellectual formation (paideia) of elite young men in the Roman Empire.

scholarly journals Use of monolingual and comparable corpora in the classroom to translate adverbial connectors

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Beatriz Sánchez Cárdenas ◽  
Pamela Faber
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Selection ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Comparable Corpora ◽  
Bilingual Dictionaries ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Semantic Prosody ◽  
Semantic Values

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2016v36nesp1p147Research in terminology has traditionally focused on nouns. Considerably less attention has been paid to other grammatical categories such as adverbs. However, these words can also be problematic for the novice translator, who tends to use the translation correspondences in bilingual dictionaries without realizing that formal equivalence is not necessarily the same as textual equivalence. However, semantic values, acquired in context, go far beyond dictionary meaning and are related to phenomena such as semantic prosody and preferences of lexical selection that can vary, depending on text type and specialized domain.This research explored the reasons why certain adverbial discourse connectors, apparently easy to translate, are a source of translation problems that cannot be easily resolved with a bilingual dictionary. Moreover, this study analyzed the use of parallel corpora in the translation classroom and how it can increase the quality of text production. For this purpose, we compared student translations before and after receiving training on the use of corpus analysis tools

THE SINGLE NEUTRAL TOP-HIGGS PRODUCTION AT ILC IN THE TC2 MODEL

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (09) ◽  
pp. 1629-1637 ◽  
Author(s):  
YAO-BEI LIU ◽  
HUI YE ◽  
YONG-HUA CAO
Keyword(s):  
Linear Collider ◽  
International Linear Collider ◽  
Higgs Production ◽  
Production Rates ◽  
Flavor Changing ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Parameter Values

In the framework of the topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model, we study the neutral top-Higgs [Formula: see text] production processes [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. The results show that the production rates can reach the level of a few fb with reasonable parameter values. With the clean background of the flavor-changing [Formula: see text] channel, the top-Higgs events can possibly be detected at the International Linear Collider (ILC) experiments. Therefore, such neutral top-Higgs production processes offer a useful way to probe for neutral top-Higgs and test the TC2 model directly.

Segmentation marking in text production

Linguistics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irit Katzenberger ◽  
Dalia Cahana-Amitay
Keyword(s):  
Text Production

scholarly journals THE CONTINUUM AND INTERFERENCE EFFECT IN $e^+e^-\to D^0\bar{D}^0$, D+D- Processes

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (36) ◽  
pp. 3113-3121 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAO-ZHI YANG
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Interference Effect ◽  
Virtual Photon ◽  
Resonance Contribution ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Continuum Contribution ◽  
The Continuum

In the e+e- annihilation processes [Formula: see text], D+D- near or above the threshold of [Formula: see text], there are not only the resonance contribution [Formula: see text], D+D-, but also the continuum contribution through virtual photon directly [Formula: see text], D+D-. The amplitudes through virtual photon directly and through resonance can interfere seriously. We consider the continuum and interference effect in the [Formula: see text] production process in e+e- annihilation. We find that the effect is significant near and above the threshold of the [Formula: see text] mesons.

scholarly journals THE CHIRAL COLOR SYMMETRY OF QUARKS AND G′-BOSON CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHARGE ASYMMETRY IN $t \bar t$-PRODUCTION AT THE LHC AND TEVATRON

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1350035 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. V. FROLOV ◽  
M. V. MARTYNOV ◽  
A. D. SMIRNOV
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Charge Asymmetry ◽  
Mixing Angle ◽  
Color Symmetry ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Cross Section Formula ◽  
Free Parameters ◽  
The Cross

The contributions of G′-boson predicted by the chiral color symmetry of quarks to the charge asymmetry [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text]-production at the LHC and to the forward–backward asymmetry [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text]-production at the Tevatron are calculated and analyzed in dependence on two free parameters of the model, the G′ mass mG′ and mixing angle θG. The mG′ - θG regions of 1 σ consistency with the CMS data on the cross-section [Formula: see text] and on the charge asymmetry [Formula: see text] are found and compared with those resulted from the CDF data on the cross-section [Formula: see text] and on the forward–backward asymmetry [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text]-production at the Tevatron with account of the current SM predictions for [Formula: see text].

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