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Self-training from labeled features for sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis concerns about automatically identifying sentiment or opinion expressed in a given piece of text. Most prior work either use prior lexical knowledge defined as sentiment polarity of words or view the task as a text classification problem and rely on labeled corpora to train a sentiment classifier. While lexicon-based approaches do not adapt well to different domains, corpus-based approaches require expensive manual annotation effort. In this paper, we propose a novel framework where an initial classifier is learned by incorporating prior information extracted from an existing sentiment lexicon with preferences on expectations of sentiment labels of those lexicon words being expressed using generalized expectation criteria. Documents classified with high confidence are then used as pseudo-labeled examples for automatical domain-specific feature acquisition. The word-class distributions of such self-learned features are estimated from the pseudo-labeled examples and are used to train another classifier by constraining the model's predictions on unlabeled instances. Experiments on both the movie-review data and the multi-domain sentiment dataset show that our approach attains comparable or better performance than existing weakly-supervised sentiment classification methods despite using no labeled documents.

Curricular training report: clinical studies coordination in a clinical research organization vs an investigational site perspective

This report describes my experience of nine months as a trainee of a CRO (Eurotrials, Scientific Consultants), as well as a trainee of a clinical research site (Clinical Academic Center – Braga, Association). This document describes the European framework about clinical research and the Portuguese situation compared to similar countries. The activities developed during this internship are also described. These activities are divided in two phases. The first one occurred in Eurotrials, Scientific Consultants, a CRO specialized in clinical research and scientific advice. The first weeks were dedicated to intensive self-training needed to perform CTA tasks. These tasks included qualification, initiation and monitoring activities related to clinical trials, as well as the development of a quality management system. The second phase took place on 2CA-Braga, a clinical research center located in Hospital of Braga. Clinical studies coordination was the main focus of this second phase of my internship, as well as negotiation of clinical studies agreements. I had also the opportunity to participate in “1as Jornadas de Investigação Clínica e Inovação” (1st Clinical Investigation and Innovation Conference) organized by 2CA-Braga. Globally, this internship was a great opportunity to get knowledge and experience in the implementation and management of clinical trials, in a CRO and clinical research site perspectives. These two perspectives provided an interesting overview about the scientific needs of different players involved in clinical research. To conclude, this internship strengthened the knowledge acquired from my academic background, which make me able to face and overcome new challenges in the clinical research area.

Art in early childhood : the discourse of 'proper' teaching

This thesis is a problematisation of the teaching of art to young children. To problematise a domain of social endeavour, is, in Michel Foucault's terms, to ask how we come to believe that "something ... can and must be thought" (Foucault, 1985:7). The aim is to document what counts (i.e., what is sayable, thinkable, feelable) as proper art teaching in Queensland at this point ofhistorical time. In this sense, the thesis is a departure from more recognisable research on 'more effective' teaching, including critical studies of art teaching and early childhood teaching. It treats 'good teaching' as an effect of moral training made possible through disciplinary discourses organised around certain epistemic rules at a particular place and time. There are four key tasks accomplished within the thesis. The first is to describe an event which is not easily resolved by means of orthodox theories or explanations, either liberal-humanist or critical ones. The second is to indicate how poststructuralist understandings of the self and social practice enable fresh engagements with uneasy pedagogical moments. What follows this discussion is the documentation of an empirical investigation that was made into texts generated by early childhood teachers, artists and parents about what constitutes 'good practice' in art teaching. Twenty-two participants produced text to tell and re-tell the meaning of 'proper' art education, from different subject positions. Rather than attempting to capture 'typical' representations of art education in the early years, a pool of 'exemplary' teachers, artists and parents were chosen, using "purposeful sampling", and from this pool, three videos were filmed and later discussed by the audience of participants. The fourth aspect of the thesis involves developing a means of analysing these texts in such a way as to allow a 're-description' of the field of art teaching by attempting to foreground the epistemic rules through which such teacher-generated texts come to count as true ie, as propriety in art pedagogy. This analysis drew on Donna Haraway's (1995) understanding of 'ironic' categorisation to hold the tensions within the propositions inside the categories of analysis rather than setting these up as discursive oppositions. The analysis is therefore ironic in the sense that Richard Rorty (1989) understands the term to apply to social scientific research. Three 'ironic' categories were argued to inform the discursive construction of 'proper' art teaching. It is argued that a teacher should (a) Teach without teaching; (b) Manufacture the natural; and (c) Train for creativity. These ironic categories work to undo modernist assumptions about theory/practice gaps and finding a 'balance' between oppositional binary terms. They were produced through a discourse theoretical reading of the texts generated by the participants in the study, texts that these same individuals use as a means of discipline and self-training as they work to teach properly. In arguing the usefulness of such approaches to empirical data analysis, the thesis challenges early childhood research in arts education, in relation to its capacity to deal with ambiguity and to acknowledge contradiction in the work of teachers and in their explanations for what they do. It works as a challenge at a range of levels - at the level of theorising, of method and of analysis. In opening up thinking about normalised categories, and questioning traditional Western philosophy and the grand narratives of early childhood art pedagogy, it makes a space for re-thinking art pedagogy as "a game oftruth and error" (Foucault, 1985). In doing so, it opens up a space for thinking how art education might be otherwise.

Apropriação do português por adultos eslavófonos: o tempo e o aspeto

As alterações no panorama social português que ocorreram no virar do milénio, marcadas pela chegada massiva de imigrantes provenientes de países que não tinham laços históricos e linguísticos com Portugal – com destaque para as comunidades do Leste europeu –, vieram colocar novos desafios à sociedade e à escola portuguesas. Com o propósito de caracterizar o perfil de apropriação da Língua Portuguesa (LP) de aprendentes adultos eslavófonos residentes em Portugal, foram recolhidos 87 questionários e testes linguísticos junto de adultos falantes de línguas eslavas que frequentavam cursos de LP em contexto formal/ não formal. Complementarmente, foram realizadas 17 entrevistas a aprendentes e professores. A análise de dados, de carácter quantitativo e qualitativo, centrou-se em três eixos fundamentais: a) o perfil de apropriação da LP; b) a gestão dos repertórios linguísticos; e c) as dificuldades manifestadas na apropriação, compreensão e uso do sistema temporal-aspetual em LP. Para cada um destes eixos, salientamos as seguintes conclusões: a) o contexto formal/ não formal é aquele que é considerado o mais eficaz; a apropriação da LP decorre ainda em contexto de autoaprendizagem e em contexto informal. A expressão oral afigura-se como uma competência de intervenção prioritária para este público. b) os repertórios linguísticos dos informantes deste estudo são limitados em número e diversidade de línguas, estando quase circunscritos às línguas eslavas, com amplo destaque para o Russo. A influência das Línguas Maternas na apropriação da LP é percecionada, de uma forma geral, como negativa, e é reduzida a adoção de estratégias de rentabilização interlinguística. c) as principais dificuldades no que se refere ao Tempo e Aspeto prendem- -se com o modo conjuntivo, os tempos compostos, os valores secundários de alguns tempos verbais, o pretérito perfeito composto do indicativo, a distinção entre o pretérito perfeito simples e o pretérito imperfeito do indicativo e a distinção entre os verbos ‘ser’ e ‘estar’. De uma forma global, apontam-se como pistas de intervenção a criação de cursos de LP de nível mais avançado, uma maior rentabilização do capital linguístico presente em sala de aula e a frequência, por parte dos docentes, de formação em línguas eslavas. A nível de recursos didáticos, sugere-se a elaboração de materiais bilingues para autoaprendizagem e de materiais de apoio ao professor. Seria igualmente útil a promoção de mais oportunidades de interação entre imigrantes e nativos.

O processo de reconhecimento, validação e certificação de competências na (re)definição de trajectórias de desenvolvimento pessoal, social e profissional

Trabalho de projecto de mestrado, Ciências da Educação (Formação de Adultos), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2011

A iniciativa Novas Oportunidades : uma oportunidade inclusiva

Trabalho de projecto de mestrado, Ciências da Educação (Formação de Adultos), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2011

Formação de técnicos de ação educativa

Trabalho de projeto de mestrado, Ciências da Educação (Formação de Adultos), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2013

Relatório de estágio em Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

Relatório EPE - Relatório de estágio em Educação Pré-Escolar: O presente relatório foi realizado no âmbito da unidade curricular Prática Pedagógica Supervisionada, inserida no Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, da Escola Superior de Educação do Porto, durante o ano letivo 2013/2014, atribuindo qualificação profissional no contexto de pré-escolar. Este documento pretende descrever e analisar o percurso formativo desenvolvido pela mestranda ao longo da sua prática pedagógica supervisionada, numa perspetiva reflexiva sobre a construção dos saberes profissionais para a Educação. Este percurso formativo comprometeu uma atitude investigativa, bem como a mobilização de saberes científicos e legais por forma a articular as vertentes de teoria e prática, perspetivando uma construção integrada dos saberes. A prática pedagógica foi sustentada numa perspetiva construtivista, atribuindo um papel ativo à criança na construção das suas aprendizagens. Esta baseou-se num trabalho de equipa cooperativo, o qual se concretiza através do debate e da partilha de ideias, entre os vários intervenientes da ação, como meio para a transformação da realidade educativa. Ao longo da prática foi, ainda, atribuído um papel fundamental à observação do contexto, sendo esta essencial para a compreensão e conhecimento pleno da criança. Em suma, todo o percurso formativo no qual está englobado a prática pedagógica, levou a uma problematização das questões emergentes da prática, desenvolvendo uma atitude indagadora e reflexiva. Apesar da significante contribuição para a aquisição de competências pessoais e profissionais, o percurso formativo deve ser assumido como uma construção contínua, fundamentado num princípio da aprendizagem ao longo da vida.

Les TIC à l’école élémentaire : étude du processus de construction des usages pédagogiques des TIC chez des instituteurs sénégalais

Le choix du Sénégal de faire des TIC un des leviers stratégiques de rénovation de l’école soulève des questions dont la nécessité de voir comment les enseignants se les approprient afin que l’école en tire les avantages attendus. Pour mieux comprendre comment et pourquoi se construisent les usages pédagogiques des TIC, la présente recherche vise à décrire et à analyser le processus et les facteurs d’intégration des TIC dans les pratiques d’enseignement des instituteurs sénégalais. La difficulté à retracer le processus a conduit à nous appuyer sur un modèle descripteur des processus d’intégration pédagogique des TIC inspiré de Sandholtz, Ringstaff et Dwyer (1997), de Karsenti, Savoie-Zajc et Larose (2001) et de Poellhuber et Boulanger (2001). Six instituteurs de l’Inspection d’Académie de Dakar qui développent depuis quatre ans au moins des TIC en classe ont été sélectionnés pour une étude multi-cas. Six entrevues individuelles semi-dirigées ont été réalisées complétées par un questionnaire, l’observation des pratiques d’intégration des TIC et une analyse documentaire. Les résultats du traitement des données recueillies sont présentés en trois articles abordant chacun un des volets de l’objectif de la recherche. Il ressort des résultats que les usages des TIC des six participants sont portés par des profils et des contextes d’usages particulièrement favorables à des pratiques d’information, de communication et de préparation de la classe à la maison et à des activités de recherche et de documentation, d’édition et de publication et d’apprentissages disciplinaires ou thématiques en classe avec les élèves. Par ailleurs, les analyses comparatives montrent que les formations (initiales et en cours d’emploi) qu’ils ont suivies ne les ayant pas suffisamment préparés à intégrer les TIC dans leurs pratiques d’enseignement, c’est dans le cadre des équipes pédagogiques portant leurs projets d’établissement d’intégration pédagogique des TIC et par des stratégies individuelles d’autoformation et d’organisation, collectives et coopératives de co-formation qu’ils ont construit leurs usages et surmonté les difficultés du parcours. Ce processus est porté par divers facteurs contextuels, institutionnels et sociaux particulièrement favorables. En plus, Ils partagent des dispositions d’esprit, des croyances et des postures épistémiques et psychosociales qui les poussent à toujours aller plus loin dans leurs pratiques d’intégration des TIC. En permettant de mieux comprendre le processus menant un instituteur des usages personnels des TIC à leurs usages professionnels et pédagogiques et comment les facteurs d’influence jouent sur les processus de cooptation et d’appropriation par lesquels il les construit, la présente recherche fournit des modèles de tracés et d’étapes d’intégration des TIC susceptibles d’être partagés et intégrés dans les référentiels de formation des enseignants à l’intégration pédagogique des TIC. Elle permet également de mieux dessiner les contours des contextes d’usages à développer et de définir les axes et les leviers pédagogiques et psychosociaux que des formateurs peuvent utiliser afin d’amener des enseignants en situation de construction des usages pédagogiques des TIC à développer les comportements et les attitudes favorables à l’intégration des TIC dans leurs pratiques d’enseignement.

O processo de invenção de si: um estudo sobre a construção identitária de pedagogas em formação

This work was developed in the course of Pedagogy, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Aims to understand the process of identity construction of teachers and educators in initial training. We started from the idea that such process was made by a complex and interdependent movement, once it was an inventive phenomenon wrought by individuals who are authors and actors of the story of their "real life" (KAUFMANN). This identity is rooted in the trajectories and social biographical experiences (FERREIRA), relationships with the constructed and accumulated knowledge in this route (CHARLOT) and in the developing of a sense of cultural belonging institutionally constructed (Luckmann, Berger). Then, the training involves relationships with knowledge in several instances, considering the effects, in one hand, the historic-social production and, in another hand, from the positions of subject and their biographical itinerary, existential and formative. We used the methodology of the Comprehensive Interview (KAUFMANN; SILVA), associated with a network of theoretical references, empirical and very analytical and interpretive activity. She researcher also relied on the "sensitive listening" (BARBIER), empathic attitude of "listening / seeing" the subject, and the notion of "intellectual artisan" (MILLS). The individual interviews were supplemented by the Focus Group. The approach was multi-referential (ARDOINO; MACEDO), with the intertwining of different perspectives, allowing a more complex configuration and less reductionist. In the analysis and interpretation we located the starting point, genesis of identity whose dynamics is not rigidly determined, but localized in space-time that precedes entry into the initial training. It is the time of concerns, questions and reflections about what you want to be in the future professional life. In sequence, we saw the route, multifaceted process whose the direction is the increasing involvement of individuals with their training. This training is engendered by the relations with the curricular, extracurricular and discursive knowledge, as simultaneous dynamics of self training and socio training. The self training of the individuals, understanding the critical, ethic and authority reading of their own experiences, is also seen as an exercise of shared responsibility, it assumes that the relationship with others meanings and professor mediation. The socio training refers to the collective subject and turns to the historical production and diversified knowledge, and comprehension of the various training instances. Self training and socio training are both objects of negotiation, because they are provocative of new designs, and cultural and identity maps, mobilizing the senses towards new meanings of themselves and the professional reality. It is in this interdependence between what is historically produced and the experiences of the subjects, who we located the arrival, considering it as a radically incomplete process of the professional identity and the building itself.

Os ateliês (auto)formativos na constituição do sujeito docente da educação matemática

The object of study of this thesis is the use of (self)training workshops as a fundamental process for the constitution of the teaching subject in mathematics education. The central purposes of the study were to describe and analyze a learning process of mathematics teachers supported by the training-research methodology, which procedures have been affected with the practice of (self)training workshops as a way of collaborating to the constitution of the teaching subject in Mathematics Education. The survey was conducted with a group of teachers in the city of Nova Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte through a process of continued education realized in the training workshops having as main goal the realization of the group s (self)training sessions in order to lead participants to the extent of their autonomy in their personal and professional transformations. The results obtained in the formative processes have shown the need to develop activities of mathematics teaching as a contribution to overcome the conceptual difficulties of the teachers, apart from their (self)reflections about themselves and the educational processes in which they belong. The results raised some propositions about (self)training workshops that may be incurred in practices to be included in the curriculum frameworks or materialize as a strategy of pedagogical work in training courses for teachers of mathematics. Also, they can constitute an administrative and educational activity to be instituted in the public schools of Basic Education