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'State government not implementing language law in letter and spirit'

Edit The Times of India 24 Oct 2016
Bhasha Suraksha Sammilani, an organization fighting for the promotion of Odia language, alleged that the state government is not implementing the language act in letter and spirit at a state-level convention here on Sunday. Sammilani president Baishnab Parida said no progress has been made since the language law came into effect in the state....

Asia Institute hosts primary school workshops (University of Tasmania)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
An enthusiastic team of staff and students from the University of Tasmania's Indonesian, Japanese and Chinese language programs, recently led a series of workshop for Austin's Ferry Primary School year five and six students....

Who voted for the intolerance poisoning the national conversation?

Edit The Guardian 24 Oct 2016
We are a nation stuck in an impasse, where a language and culture of intolerance are beginning to emerge ... “Language used by people who were Brexiters has become much more aggressive,” said one ... Language matters and political rhetoric has consequences ... his country, But with the language currently heard around child refugees, it does make me wonder....

Untold story of a Soviet diplomat in Jeddah

Edit Arabnews 24 Oct 2016
Author. . SIRAJ WAHAB. Mon, 2016-10-24 ... In addition to Arabic, he knew seven other languages ... At university, he selected English as his first language “and Arabic as my second language.” There was no particular reason for him to take Arabic. “I am a Muslim and Arabic is the language of the Qur’an and so I thought it would be a good language to learn,” he said ... They could have sent me to Turkey because Turkish was my third language ... ....

Concern about the way Aboriginal language is taught in NSW Schools

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 24 Oct 2016
A leading Indigenous educator has criticised the way Indigenous languages are being taught in New South Wales public schools ... ....

Computer 'judge' predicts European Court verdicts with 79% accuracy

Edit Belfast Telegraph 24 Oct 2016
An AI "judge" has correctly predicted verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights with 79% accuracy ... Independent.ie ... Go To ... The algorithm scoured English language data sets for 584 cases relating to torture and degrading treatment, fair trials and privacy ... The most reliable factors for predicting the court's decisions were found to be the language used as well as the topics and circumstances mentioned in the case texts ... ....

Several institutions benefit from Energy Commission's CSR 'do' (Energy Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. Energy Commission). Headline. Several institutions benefit from Energy Commission's CSR do. MediaTitle. Daily Express (KK). Date ... Color ... Language....

Cubs' clinched most-viewed LCS game on TV since 2010

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 24 Oct 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — The Chicago Cubs' first pennant clincher since 1945 was seen by an average of 9.7 million viewers on Fox Sports 1, the highest total for a League Championship Series in six years ... Viewers increased to a peak of 12.2 million for the Cubs' game-ending double play. Fox said an average of 110,500 viewers watched digitally on Fox Sports Go and 273,000 more on Fox Deportes' Spanish-language coverage ... ....

Artificial intelligence 'judge' developed by UCL computer scientists

Edit The Guardian 24 Oct 2016
Software program can weigh up legal evidence and moral questions of right and wrong to predict the outcome of trials ... The algorithm examined English language data sets for 584 cases relating to torture and degrading treatment, fair trials and privacy ... The most reliable factors for predicting European court of human rights decisions were found to be the language used as well as the topics and circumstances mentioned in the case texts ... ....

Yemeni precision missiles hit two Saudi bases in Najran

Edit Press TV 24 Oct 2016
The retaliatory attack was launched with the support fighters of the Yemeni Houthi Ansarullah movement, Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported on Sunday ...   ... (Photo by AFP) ....

Krishna Madiga asks Rellis to support categorisation

Edit The Hindu 24 Oct 2016
Mr ... The main demands of the Rellis include allocating at least 5 per cent reservation to Rellis, setting up of a ‘Relli Corporation’, inclusion of Rellis as STs as the Relli language does not have a script and according priority to Rellis in housing and education. ....

Department of Arabic hosts exchange program with Tunisian teens (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies). Arabic Department hosts exchange program with Tunisia ... 8, 2016 ... HUFS, which has been leading Arabic language and regional studies in South Korea, also introduced the history and education programs of the Arabic department ... During the visit, the visitors toured the university ... (noodl. 35948042) ....

Transforming the lives of children with hearing loss (City of Sydney)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. City of Sydney) ... Ms Davis is a certified listening and spoken language specialist and speech pathologist, and the recipient of the Business Leader category award as part of the NSW Business Chamber Business Awards ... 'When working with children with hearing loss, there is such a short, critical window while the children are learning language to get it right ... They offer a variety of family-centred critical services under one roof....
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