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Statistical enhanced learning for modeling and prediction tennis matches at Grand Slam tournaments
Get PDFIn this manuscript, we concentrate on a specific type of covariates, which we call statistically enhanced, for modeling tennis matches for men at Grand slam tournaments. Our goal is to assess whether these enhanced covariates have the potential to improve statistical learning approaches, in particular, with regard to the predictive performance. For this purpose, various proposed regression and machine learning model classes are compared with and without such features. To achieve this, we considered three slightly enhanced variables, namely elo rating along with two different player age variables. This concept has already been successfully applied in football, where additional team ability parameters, which were obtained from separate statistical models, were able to improve the predictive performance.In addition, different interpretable machine learning (IML) tools are employed to gain insights into the factors influencing the outcomes of tennis matches predicted by complex machine learning models, such as the random forest. Specifically, partial dependence plots (PDP) and individual conditional expectation (ICE) plots are employed to provide better interpretability for the most promising ML model from this work. Furthermore, we conduct a comparison of different regression and machine learning approaches in terms of various predictive performance measures such as classification rate, predictive Bernoulli likelihood, and Brier score. This comparison is carried out on external test data using cross-validation, rolling window, and expanding window strategies
The Close Link between Language and Music
Get PDFIt is a well-known fact that the relationship between music and the sound of speech must involve the music of the language which, like language, functions on two axes: one is horizontal and concerned with sequences, and the other is vertical and permits the production, selection, and availability of sounds and phrases. There is, indeed, a close link between the phonic system of a language and the structure of its music, and this can be shown by comparing both systems. The present chapter explores music, and songs in particular, to demonstrate the placement of word stress, syllable structure, metrical structure, and various prosodic features which are components shared by the two domains. For example, introducing the rhythm of English and suprasegmental features in both the linguistic and musical descriptions of a sentence/utterance or lyrics line may bring to light relevant aspects of both areas. Also, this text seeks to broaden our understanding of the phonology of English and expand upon the correlation between the musical and linguistic systems, and may contribute to supplying foreign learners of English with specific and perceptual reference point
Translation as a Site of Agency and Activism. Acts of Resistance and Change
Get PDFThis special issue responds to the need for an in-depth investigation of activism and agency and brings to light translation work and translation networks created to support a culture of change across the world. It aims to celebrate the values and the principles endorsed and validated by activist translators and/or networks. The volume welcomes the cross-pollination with a number of disciplines, including but not limited to Translation Studies, Gender Studies, Migration and Mobility Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, Sociology, Ethnography, Politics, Linguistics and Literary Criticism among others. Besides its overview of the growing diversity of research (both theoretical and practical) on translation, this volume has a thematic orientation focused on the role played by translation as agent of resistance and change of the dynamics between gender, class, race and power, the human and the other-than-human in society
Empires of the Everyday. Poetry as Translation of Empire
Get PDFThis article examines how poetry might act as a translator of Empire and posits that such translation is a critical component of resistance, following Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian’s (2020) framing of translator as witness-bearer. I consider ways that poetry might engage in acts of translation across a single language to reflect the historical and contemporary contexts of imperialism and colonialization, and recognize this as a political process, drawing from scholars working on translation and/or language, such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2018), Luciana de Mesquita Silva and Dennys SilvaReis (2019), and Don Mee Choi (2020). This article specifically examines a collection of poetry I wrote, titled Empires of the Everyday, wherein the poems spar with an AI translator to expose the history and ongoing presence of colonialism and state violence. Through this examination, this article asks: How might a poetry versed in a Black feminist praxis render a translation of Empire possible? How might such a translation focus attention on “reflecting, intuiting, making sense of, and undoing the times we live in”, which Dionne Brand (2017b, audio recording) has suggested is the liberating work of poetry? How is such a process of translating across paradigms implicated in acts of activism as resistance