There are a wide range of interactions between 'science' and 'the public'. Examples range from visiting a museum, or indulging in a science-related hobby, to reading a newspaper article about a breakthrough in the techniques of therapeutic cloning. Many of these interactions could be said to be 'passive'. This unit explores the practicalities of the public becoming more 'active' in the direction of science practice by 'two-way' interactions, with dialogue taking place between science and some part of 'the public',

This course is a graduate introduction to natural language processing - the study of human language from a computational perspective. It covers syntactic, semantic and discourse processing models, emphasizing machine learning or corpus-based methods and algorithms. It also covers applications of these methods and models in syntactic parsing, information extraction, statistical machine translation, dialogue systems, and summarization. The subject qualifies as an Artificial Intelligence and Applications concentration subject.

Formulating and analyzing texts about air pollution. You will learn which air polluters are in our homes and how they can be prevented.

At the completion of this lesson: based on verbal instructions you will be able to find an address in the city. Conversely, you will be able to ask for direction to a certain shop or place of interest in the city.

At the end of this lesson you will be able to name the different parts of a dinner service and cutlery. What are all the things that might decorate a table in a restaurant and what do you call them in French?

At the completion of this lesson will be able to answer some questions regarding a joint bank account. You will also learn the most current bank terminologies in French.

By the end of this lesson you will be able to: welcome someone to your house. How do you entertain people you don't know very well? What are the polite phrases in French?

Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure asks the students to write a script for Bill and Ted, the penguins featured in this video clip.

What is a blog and what are the terms connected to this in French? Visit some blogs and complete the relevant empty spaces.

At the completion of this lesson you will be able to obtain information about a boat trip in the Bourgogne region on a Internet site. You will also learn about different boats and some of the most important rivers in France.

At the completion of this lesson you will be able to understand a news report about a bush fire in France. You will also learn how big these fires can become and what kind of damages they cause each year, over and over again.

At the completion of this lesson you will be able to hold a conversation about purchasing a second hand car. What you need to pay attention to and what types of questions to ask. How will you asses a car objectively before buying it?

By the end of this lesson you will be able to: ask a travel agent for information. You can book a ticket by phone and ask correct, specific questions beforehand.

At the completion of this lesson you will be able to answer questions about the first memories of the television. You will look at a number of audio segments that look back on the youth and child programs of the early days.

You will understand the different proposals for counteracting further climate disruption and you will assess their suitability. Listen to fragments of a news report and give your own opinion and conclusions.

In this video segment from Jazz at Lincoln Center, jazz musicians perform a collective improvisation.

At the completion of this lesson you will be able to: Correctly fill in the blanks in an article about public utilities in France and in Mali. You will be able to tell the phenomenal differences in comfort that exists between these both countries.

At the completion of this lesson you will be able to report a news item. Interviewing a famous singer and a family drama are the basis of this lesson.

In this lesson you will, by listening to a segment, complete a text in which information is given about the region Languedoc Roussillon. You will learn which items to highlight to describe a region to third parties.