Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Currently, there is little agreement as to how Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems
should be evaluated, with a particularly high degree of variation in the way that human …

This Tutorial serves as both an approachable theoretical introduction to mixed-effects
modeling and a practical introduction to how to implement mixed-effects models in R. The …

In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

Contrast coding in regression models, including mixed-effect models, changes what the
terms in the model mean. In particular, it determines whether or not model terms should be …

We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision conversations with a
perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N= 205 participants were prompted with …

Teachers frequently express stress associated with teaching in large classrooms. Despite
the time-honored tradition in teacher stress research of treating class size as a job-related …

Multilevel modeling (MLM) is becoming increasingly accessible and popular in the analysis
of event-related potentials (ERPs). In this article, we review the benefits of MLM for analyzing …

This is a part of the research results entitled “The Effects of Best-Practice based Materials in
Language Learning Behaviors in Improving Language Skills”. Best practice can generate …

Reading acquisition is based on a set of preliteracy skills that lay the foundation for future
reading abilities. Phonological awareness—the ability to identify and manipulate the sound …