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L-R: Katie Lee; Leo Walters; Bruce Berger sitting on a boat on the Colorado River.
Photo of Photo of Arizona folk singer and author Katie Lee (far left), Leo Walters (center), and writer Bruce Berger (far right), sitting on a raft on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon, Uta
ANZAC Day with Bruce Scates
This ANZAC Day will be unlike any other in living memory. But wherever we are, we can still come together and reflect. Come together this ANZAC Day for a special online event with Professor Bruce Scates, ANU historian, author and producer of the series ‘Australian Journey’. In this interactive broadcast, Bruce will present a vivid look at how our nation remembers war, and tell the stories of men and women touched by it
The Lewis & Clark sketchbook: based on 1804-1806 journey of Lewis & Clark
This sketchbook follows the footsteps of two American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, as they explored and mapped the Missouri and Columbia Rivers from 1804-1806, and made contact with the Indigenous peoples along the way. The author has also included travel suggestions and a travel itinerary for those interested in following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark. The last part of the sketchbook contains the sketches of schoolchildren as they sketched their interpretations of selected diary entries of the Lewis and Clark 1804-1806 journey of exploration.monograp
Debra Bruce, 25th Annual Literary Festival
Debra Bruce is the author of three books of poetry, Pure Daughter, Sudden Hunger, and most recently, What Wind Will Do. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The American Poetry Review, The North American Review, Poetry, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and she has received grants in writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois Arts Council. She is Associate Professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University
Informed learning: a narration
In this salon conversation, Christine Bruce, author of ‘Informed Learning’ will read the narratives underpinning the book's chapters. The intention is to reveal the narrative thread which reflects a journey of the scholarship of learning and teaching. In the course of that journey, two new academics engage in learning and teaching innovation, securing their own professional development, and creating unexpected opportunities for colleagues and the wider university in the process. Informed learning is a way of thinking about the educational process in terms of using information to learn. Information is often the hidden element in curriculum...present, critical, not always explicitly recognised. Thinking in terms of informed learning provides a language and an approach that highlights the role of information in the learning process, encouraging all members of the learning community to be aware of that role, and benefit from it. The narratives will serve as openers to discussion about the experience of learning and teaching with attention to information environments.\ud
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Christine Bruce (2008) <i>Informed Learning</i>. Chicago, American College and Research Libraries.\ud
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<a href="http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Bruce,_Christine.html">Christine Bruce QUT ePrints profile</a
Margaret Carnegie, Holbrook, New South Wales, ca. 1975, 1 [picture] /
Margaret Carnegie lived at Kildrummie near Holbrook. She is the author of Friday Mount and Morgan the Bold Bushranger and is a collector of art.; Part of: Sheilas, a tribute to Australian women collection, ca. 1975.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information supplied by photographer.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4227509
Bruce Weigl, 11th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Bruce Weigl, a member of the Associated Writing Programs Board of Directors, is the author of five books of poetry: A Sackfill of Old Quarrels, Executioner, A Romance, The Monkey Wars and most recently Song of Napalm (1988). His poetry, essays, articles and reviews have appeared in many periodicals. His work has received a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Breadloaf Fellowship, and a Yaddo Fellowship. During 1967-68 he served with the First Air Cavalry in Vietnam; in 1985 he revisited Vietnam. A former member of the creative writing faculty at Old Dominion University, he now teaches at Pennsylvania State University
Determining underlying presence in the learning of grammars that allow insertion and deletion
The simultaneous learning of a phonological map from inputs to outputs and a lexicon of phonological underlying forms has been a focus of several research efforts (Jarosz 2006; Apoussidou 2007; Merchant 2008; Merchant & Tesar 2008; Tesar 2014). One of the numerous challenges is that of computational efficiency, which led to the investigation of learning with output-driven maps (Tesar 2014). Prior work on learning with output-driven maps has focused on systems in which the only disparities between inputs and outputs were segmental identity disparities (differences in the value of a feature). Inclusion of segmental insertion and deletion disparities exacerbates computational concerns, as it increases the number of possible correspondence relations between an input and an output, and makes the space of possible inputs for a word infinite due to the possible presence of an unbounded number of deleted segments. We propose an extension of that earlier work to handle phonologies that permit insertion and deletion, and evaluate the proposal by applying it to cases in Basic CV Syllable Theory (Jakobson 1962; Clements & Keyser 1983; Prince & Smolensky 2004). First, we propose that a learner represent information about the possible presence/absence of a segment in an underlying form via a presence feature. The presence feature can be set using the same inconsistency detection method that has previously been used to set other segmental features. This allows the learner to combine evidence from paradigmatically related words in a single compact representation. Second, we propose that the learner only consider for underlying forms segments that surface in at least one surface realization of the morpheme. This approach is justified by the structure of output-driven maps, and avoids the potential for an unbounded number of possibly deleted segments in an underlying form. A proof is given for the validity of the method for avoiding unbounded deletion. The resulting learner is able to learn some grammatical regularities about segmental insertion and deletion; this is shown via two manual step-by-step applications of the algorithm. Verificatory simulations for learning the entire typology of Basic CV Syllable Theory are left to work in the near future.Peer reviewe
Phonological Learning with Output-Driven Maps
The concept of an output-driven map formally characterizes an intuitive notion about phonology: that disparities between the input and the output are introduced only to the extent necessary to satisfy restrictions on outputs. When all of the grammars definable in a phonological system are output-driven, the implied structure provides significant computational benefits to language learners. An output-driven map imposes significant structure on the space of possible inputs for words, which can allow a learner to efficiently learn a lexicon of phonological underlying forms despite the vast number of possible lexica, as well as contend with the challenges of map/lexicon interactions inherent in phonological learning. This article presents a learning algorithm that exploits the structure of output-driven maps, illustrated with a system of grammars based in Optimality Theory. The algorithm highlights the roles played by contrast and paradigmatic information in phonological learning.Peer reviewe
Faithful contrastive features in learning
This paper pursues the idea of inferring aspects of phonological underlying forms directly from surface contrasts by looking at Optimality Theoretic linguistic systems (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004). The main result proves that linguistic systems satisfying certain conditions have the Faithful Contrastive Feature property: whenever two distinct morphemes contrast on the surface in a particular environment, at least one of the underlying features on which the two differ must be realized faithfully on the surface. A learning procedure exploiting the Faithful Contrastive Feature property, Contrast Analysis, can set the underlying values of some features, even where featural minimal pairs do not exist, but is nevertheless fundamentally limited in what it can set. This work suggests that observation of surface contrasts between pairs of words can contribute to the learning of underlying forms, while still supporting the view that interaction with the phonological mapping will be necessary to fully determine underlying forms.Peer reviewe
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