Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Embedding models are powerful machine-learning-based representations of human language used in a myriad of Natural Language Processing tasks. Due to their ability to learn underlying word association ...
Telecollaboration through videoconferencing is one way of responding to the present situation in education resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as from globalization and innovation in ...
Pragmatics, defined as the ability to use language socially, matters enormously in our day-to-day life and involves both the linguistic and social aspects of human communication. The literature ...
In this doctoral thesis, we address the study of the linguistic evolution of Western medicine disease terms in the Chinese language from 1915 to 2020. This is a parameter that has not yet been ...
Obesity is a pressing health issue and a popular topic in Chinese media. This PhD thesis investigates the metaphors used to talk about obesity in Chinese media. Specifically, this thesis compares the ...
and 2) transatlantic readers through focus groups, questionnaires and ethnographic fieldwork. These analytical layers establish a comprehensive view of the cultural, linguistic, social, and political ...
Nowadays, we still witness many foreign language classrooms where traditional teaching methods do not enable students to further expand their communicative development. The aim of the sociocultural ...
In the last couple of years, medical information has been presented across different digital and visual forms of communication. Mainly, comics are published on various social media platforms and ...
When watching television, many people use social media to share real-time opinions and feelings. The mediated co-viewing is widely studied under the name of “second screen” or “social TV”. In Japan and ...
With a social interaction perspective, this research investigates the development of Transcultural Competence in a multi-dimensionally internationalized university classroom. Adopting a mixed-method ...
