Dallas Christian College (DCC) is a private Christian college in Farmers Branch, Texas. It is affiliated with the Christian Church and accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education.
Aiming towards improving current computational models of humor detection, we propose a new multimodal dataset of stand-up comedies, in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Czech. Our dataset of more than 330 hours %, is at the time of writing the biggest available for this type of task, and the most diverse. The whole dataset is automatically annotated in laughter (from the audience), and the subpart left for model validation is manually annotated.% Contrary to contemporary approaches, we do not frame the task of humor detection as a binary sequence classification, but as word-level sequence labeling, in order to take into account all the context of the sequence and to capture the continuous joke tagging mechanism typically occurring in natural conversations. As par with unimodal baselines results, we propose a method for e propose a method to enhance the automatic laughter detection based on Audio Speech Recognition errors. Our code and data are available online: https://tinyurl.com/EMNLPHumourStandUpAnonym
Professional development, specifically for high school and college instructors teaching dual enrollment, is virtually non‐existent. The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of instructors teaching dual enrollment in the high school and college environment on what type of professional development is needed. Based on interviews with high school and community college instructors, collaboration, technology training, and pedagogical methods were identified as essential elements of professional development to help educators teaching dual credit courses.
The paper aims to compare how high school dual credit teachers and community college professors perceive dual credit students in their courses. The study aims to clarify how these differing perspectives impact dual credit courses. Using purposeful sampling, a qualitative research design, and phenomenology as a research method, individual interviews were conducted with four dual credit high school teachers at four separate high schools and four college professors at a community college partnered with those high schools. The results of this study suggested that although high school dual credit teachers and college professors share similar goals and expectations of dual credit students, dual credit high school teachers viewed dual credit students through different lenses regarding academic readiness and maturity compared to the college professors. Participants, both high school teachers and college professors, agreed that dual credit programs are beneficial for marginalized students, but there were differing opinions between the high school teachers and college professors about the extent of these benefits. Both the high school teachers and college professors noted that professional development for dual credit teachers is nonexistent, and they agreed on their ideas of what should be included in dual credit professional development to help them better meet the needs of their dual credit students. These results indicate that high school and community college administrators should use extreme care when selecting the teachers for their dual credit courses. The paper includes implications for the development of a professional development program for dual credit teachers to help them meet the wide-ranging needs of dual credit students, regardless of the campus where dual credit courses are taken. As many in society view dual credit courses as a watering down of college courses, this study validates the integrity of dual credit courses and offers a way to refute societal beliefs about the courses being watered down. This paper enhances existing dual credit literature by filling a hole that focuses more on the teaching side of dual credit courses than the student side.
This article discusses Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact by Jeffrey A.Brown (University of Texas Press, 2023). The book covers six modernartistic styles prevalent in American superhero comics, as well as providingbackground on the historical reception of comic book art. The review concludes that, while the text maybe less approachable for non-specialists, the book highlights a comparativelyunderexamined aspect of the field of Comics Studies and is a valuable resource.
