Multiword units (MWUs) are critical in processing and understanding texts and have been extensively studied in relation to their occurrences in texts. MWUs also play an essential role in organising vocabulary, which is most prominently visible in domain-specific terminologies. There has been, however, a limited and mostly theoretical concern with the latter aspect of MWUs; researchers intereste...

For learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Indonesia, encountering unfamiliar words can be a major roadblock in reading comprehension, especially if they happen to be keywords in a particular text. To overcome the vocabulary problem, learners generally resort to a dictionary, hardly realizing that other strategies exist. The strategy of inferring word meaning from context, for insta...

In this talk I will review the present status and future perspectives of some popular extensions of the conventional three-neutrino oscillation scenario, from a purely phenomenological point of view. For concreteness I will focus only on three specific scenarios: non-standard neutrino interactions with matters, models with extra sterile neutrinos, and neutrino decay and decoherence.

An experimental validation is presented of a novel method for usability testing that entails the playback of dynamic eyetracking data to cue the elicitation of retrospective verbal reports. Participants in our study produced: (1) think-aloud reports during an online search task, and (2) retrospective reports during another online search task, with reports being cued by the playback of either th...

This paper describes a reflection-based approach for open learner modeling (OLM). Tutoring dialogues are used by learners to explicitly reveal their own knowledge state to themselves. Dewey's theory of reflective thinking is used to create tutorial strategies which govern these dialogues. Drake's specification of critical thinking, associated to a defined set of skills, is used to define tutori...

Eugene Charniak (Brown University) EM (the Expectation Maximization Algorithm) is a well known technique for unsupervised learning (where one does not have any hand labeled solutions available, but instead one must learn from the raw text). Unfortunately EM is known to fail to find good solutions in many (most?) applications on which it is tried. In this talk I present work on using EM to learn...

This presentation outlines the development and evaluation of two online brief personalized feedback interventions for alcohol use (http://www.Unitcheck.co.uk and http://www.ChangeDrinking.com). By pulling together results from five individual studies, we aim to enable the audience to explore how the overall narrative enables additional insight in to our understanding of development, effectivene...

This is an expository invited paper presented at a Conference on the Influence of Computing on Mathematical Research and Education, at the summer meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Missoula, Montana, August, 1973. AN INTRODUCTION TO SOME CURRENT RESEARCH IN NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY J. F. Traub This is a Conference on the Influence of Computing on Mathematical Research and...

Analogical reasoning is claimed to play a central role in creative cognition and the development of expertise. To date, however, few studies have explored the nature and prevalence of spontaneous analogising in design contexts. In the present paper we report an experimental comparison of analogy use by expert and novice engineering designers who were presented with a brief to design a conceptua...

An empirical study comparing the model development process followed by experts in DiscreteEvent Simulation (DES) and System Dynamics (SD) modelling is undertaken. Verbal Protocol Analysis (VPA) is used to study the modelling process followed by ten expert modellers (5 SD and 5 DES). Participants are asked to build simulation models based on a case study and to think aloud while modelling. The g...