In this lecture I want to focus on the importance of being multilingual. To start
with, I will briefly explore the reality that today the majority of people across the
world are multilingual. . This phenomenon is driven ...
Providind people in under-served communities with information access could be of great social value. I discuss some of our attempts during the past decade to create systems based on speech technology which can be used for ...
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I would get the opportunity in my academic lifetime to combine, into one inaugural lecture, my regional history research experience in a wide variety of disciplinary fields, ...
The earliest studies of resilience (Anthony & Cohler, 1987; Werner & Smith, 1982)
posited that resilient young people were "vulnerable, but invincible" (Werner, 1996) or
even "invulnerable" (Anthony & Cohler, 1987). At ...