Katherine Thornton

From transmission to negotiation: authenticity, ambivalence, and the transformation of learner beliefs through telecollaboration

Levi Durbidge, Katherine Thornton, Tomoe Shimoyukawa

This study examines the transformative impact of a teletandem programme, a reciprocal telecollaborative language exchange, on participants’ beliefs about language and interaction. Drawing on semi­structured interviews with 18 participants over a three-year period, including 14 who completed follow-up interviews around one year …

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Shape Expressions with Inheritance

Iovka Boneva, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud’hommeaux, Katherine Thornton et autres

We formally introduce an inheritance mechanism for the Shape Expressions language (ShEx). It is inspired by inheritance in object-oriented programming languages, and provides similar advantages such as reuse, modularity, and more flexible data modelling. Using an example, we explain the main features …

Using Virtual Reality in SelfAccess Learning Centers: Opportunities and Challenges

Mehrasa Alizadeh, Katherine Thornton

Virtual reality, an immersive technology which allows users to interact with each other within a three dimensional computergenerated environment, has many affordances for language learning and interna tional exchange.This paper highlights the potential benefits of this technology and describes one possible use, …

Focusing on the future of SALL: A response to Stacey Vye

Katherine Thornton

This article is a response to Vye’s (2023) review of Everhard’s 2022 article in Relay Journal. I pick up on the themes that Vye identified in her review about the challenges facing the future of physical self-access learning centres, and relate Vye’s …

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Shape Expressions with Inheritance

Iovka Boneva, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud’hommeaux, Katherine Thornton et autres

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AI Semantic Credibility and Wikibase Knowledge Graph Self-Verification

Katherine Thornton, Kenneth Seals-Nutt

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Dura-Europos Stories: Developing interactive storytelling applications using knowledge graphs for cultural heritage exploration

Katherine Thornton, Kenneth Seals-Nutt, Anne Chen

We introduce Dura-Europos Stories, a multimedia application for viewing artifacts and places related to the Dura-Europos archaeological excavation. We describe the process of mapping data to the Wikidata data model as well as the process of contributing data to Wikidata. We provide …

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Encoding Archaeological Data Models as Wikidata Schemas: Utilizing Shape Expressions to Structure Collaborative Linked Open Data for Digital Storytelling Within the International Dura-Europos Archive

Katherine Thornton, Kenneth Seals Nutt, Anne Hunnell Chen

Supporting Multilingual Practices in Self-Access Environments: Considerations for Language Policy

Katherine Thornton

Despite the recent multilingual turn (May, 2014), monolingual approaches to language learning continue to affect language policy and planning in Japan. This chapter argues that the introduction of more multilingual approaches to language policy in self-access centres can have significant benefits for …

Reuse of the FoodOn ontology in a knowledge base of food composition data

Katherine Thornton, Kenneth Seals-Nutt, Mika Matsuzaki, Damion Dooley

We describe our work to integrate the FoodOn ontology with our knowledge base of food composition data, WikiFCD. WikiFCD is knowledge base of structured data related to food composition and food items. With a goal to reuse FoodOn identifiers for food items, …

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Ten years of English Café at Otemon (ECO): Sustaining an autonomy-supportive learning community

Katherine Thornton

This paper reflects on ten years of English Café at Otemon (ECO), considering the contributions ECO has been able to make to individual students at Otemon, the university as a whole, and the wider community.It tracks the beginnings of a new style …

Linking women editors of periodicals to the Wikidata knowledge graph

Katherine Thornton, Kenneth Seals-Nutt, Marianne Van Remoortel, Julie M. Birkholz et autres

Stories are important tools for recounting and sharing the past. To tell a story one has to put together diverse information about people, places, time periods, and things. We detail here how a machine, through the power of Semantic Web, can compile …

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