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This article aims to investigate information literacy perspectives of bi/multilinguals in Nigeria. The study aims to identify bilingual and multilingual definitions of information literacy, determine factors that influence their information literacy ...

Representing snippets of information abstractly is a task that needs to be performed for various purposes, such as database view specification and the first stage in the natural language generation pipeline for generative AI from structured input, i.e., ...

We are developing a social robot to work alongside human support workers who help new arrivals in a country to navigate the necessary bureaucratic processes in that country. The ultimate goal is to develop a robot that can support refugees and asylum ...

Déprise is an interactive digital narrative that was initially published online in 2010 ( or ). Over time, this literary interactive narrative was translated from its original French version French into ...

This paper presents an eyetracking study on language reception in a multilingual society. It focuses on the reading behavior of 23 trilingual participants from South Tyrol, Italy, who speak and understand Italian, German and Ladin, the latter a ...

Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) using speech interfaces have historically been limited to monolingual use in pre-selected languages. Although recent developments in some IPAs have allowed for increased multilingual flexibility, the plurilingual ...

The article deals with the problem of improving the concept of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). At present, with the growing requirements for graduates of pedagogical universities and the search for ways of high-quality preparation for ...

We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained a lot of traction in recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a result of translation knowledge transfer (transfer learning). MNMT is ...

We contribute to the intersection of multilingualism and human-computer interaction (HCI) with our investigation of language preferences in the context of the interface design of interactive systems. Through interview data collected from avid smartphone ...

Bilingual electronic dictionaries contain collections of lexical entries in two languages, with explicitly declared translation relations between such entries. Nevertheless, they are typically developed in isolation, in their own formats and accessible ...

Although evidences show that there are more bilingual and multilingual individuals in the world than there are monolingual ones, still there are few software systems that take advantage of this ability of their users. In this paper, five current ...

More than half of the almost 400 million bibliographic records in WorldCat are for languages other than English. Most of the monographs described were published only once. But a few million represent the core of our shared culture--works that have been ...

The number and quality of user reviews greatly affects consumer purchasing decisions. While reviews in all languages are increasing, it is still often the case (especially for non-English speakers) that there are only a few reviews in a person's first ...

Social network services (SNSs) have become new global and multilingual information platforms due to their popularity. In SNSs with content-sharing functionality, such as "retweet" in Twitter and "share" in Facebook, posts are easily and quickly shared ...

The number of user reviews of tourist attractions, restaurants, mobile apps, etc. is increasing for all languages; yet, research is lacking on how reviews in multiple languages should be aggregated and displayed. Speakers of different languages may have ...

U-Report is a social messaging tool developed by UNICEF that allows people in developing countries to respond to polls, report issues, and become agents of positive change within in their communities. This program, which has grown to serve over 15 ...

The systemic introduction of computer science education in federalist countries such as the United States, Germany, and Switzerland can be extremely difficult. The lack of top down dissemination mechanisms makes it hard to scale up even successful ...

In a multilingual society, language not only reflects culture and heritage, but also has implications for social status and the degree of integration in society. Different languages can be a barrier between monolingual communities, and the dynamics of ...

Due to increasing globalization, urban societies are becoming more multicultural. The availability of large-scale digital mobility traces e.g. from tweets or checkins provides an opportunity to explore multiculturalism that until recently could only be ...

Recently, the Semantic Web has experienced significant advancements in standards and techniques, as well as in the amount of semantic information available online. Even so, mechanisms are still needed to automatically reconcile semantic information when ...