This is a case study using an interactive digital game to teach grammar via Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL). The MALL aimed ease TESL students' fear and trigger their interest in learning grammar. uses the Theory of Variation (Marton & Booth) design exercises game. A survey questionnaire semi-structured interview were administered gauge students’ perceptions findings show that has ...

Knowledge management has recently become the focus of public attention in business and engineering. Because knowledge acquisition is situated in the upstream of knowledge management, capturing knowledge is an important step for enterprises to achieve successful knowledge management. We focus on how engineers solve their design problems under given design contexts and propose a novel model and m...

An important requirement for any artificial intelligence program is its capability to understand what has been communicated to it. How does the program recognize all the potential effects when it is given a declarative sentence involving an action? There are three major bodies of knowledge that need to be learned. The first body of knowledge is the English grammar. The second body of knowledge ...

knowledge about artificial grammar: Some methodological and conceptual issues. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,

Constraint-based grammars can, in principle, serve as the major linguistic knowledge source for both parsing and generation. Surface generation starts from input semantics representations that may vary across grammars. For many declarative grammars, the concept of derivation implicitly built in is that of parsing. They may thus not be interpretable by a generation algorithm. We show that lingui...

We provide two approaches for explaining inconsistency in multi-context systems, where decentralized and heterogeneous system parts interact via nonmonotonic bridge rules. Inconsistencies arise easily in such scenarios, and nonmonotonicity calls for specific methods of inconsistency analysis. Both our approaches characterize inconsistency in terms of involved bridge rules: either by pointing ou...

Data-driven approach for parsing may suffer from data sparsity when entirely unsupervised. External knowledge has been shown to be an effective way to alleviate this problem. Subordinating conjunctions impose important constraints on Chinese syntactic structures. This paper proposes a method to develop a grammar with hierarchical category knowledge of subordinating conjunctions as explicit anno...

This dissertation study examined a broad question of whether computer-based grammar tutorials are effective and welcome tools to review grammar for language learners by investigating effects of three different modes of such tutorials on learners’ knowledge and satisfaction. For this study, I developed experimental tutorials in three different modes (a static text with a voice-over narration, an...

Knowledge Workers and Infomediaries John Milam Executive Director of HigherEd.org, Inc. ______________________________________________________________________________ Knowledge management is defined and compared to information management and the institutional research function. In order to promote transformational change, new tools such as learning histories are needed; mistakes must be valued;...