Projects
Commonsense and Anticipation enriched Learning of Continuous representations sUpporting Language UnderStanding KU Leuven
Natural language understanding (NLU) by the machine is of large scientific, economic and social value. Humans perform the NLU task in an efficient way by relying on their capability to imagine or anticipate situations. They engage commonsense and world knowledge that is often acquired through perceptual experiences to make explicit what is left implicit in language. Inspired by these characteristics CALCULUS will design, implement and ...
Language policy section tailored to secondary schools in the Vlaamse Rand around Brussels KU Leuven
As part of the assignment to support secondary schools, vzw 'de Rand' deploys school support staff to work with schools on the theme. The school support staff map out the needs of the schools, they support the schools in the development and implementation of their language policy, parent policy and opportunities to practice Dutch outside of class hours and school walls. 'De Rand' works together with the CTO to organize a training course for ...
Tensors and Neural Networks for Creative Language Generation KU Leuven
Understanding accents: the intelligibility of regional and non-native accents to English as a Foreign Language learners. Ghent University
Listening to a language which is not one’s own native language can be surprisingly difficult, even for advanced learners. This is especially so when the speaker has an unfamiliar regional or non-native accent. While listeners can easily deal with variation in their native language, coping with accent variation in a non-native language is more difficult. In the case of English, with its millions of native and non-native speakers, language ...
Eye-tracking working memory training in school-aged children and youth with severe cerebral palsy: a randomized controlled trial KU Leuven
People with severe cerebral palsy (CP) who are nonverbal and unable to control conventional computer interfaces due to the severe limitations in hand control benefit from eye-tracking technology as access method to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices and to computers for education and leisure. Research has put forward the large demands that the use of AAC puts on working memory (WM), defined as our ability to temporarily ...