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.

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...

Ten years ago, large corpora were mainly available to industrial research groups; academic access to very large bodies of text was limited. Today a nllmber of large corpora are available and research using these resources has expanded well beyond the relatively small industrial research community. This expanded research community has significantly enlarged the scope of VLC research. Today's res...

People increasingly live their lives in an online setting. This observation is fundamental to a growing body of work that aims at describing, understanding and exploiting the abundance of online personal information. The strong potential of social media platforms for understanding people’s behavior has already played an important role in scientific literature and as we increasingly integrate so...

Write-along Low Cost Remote (LCR) evaluation has been proposed as a highly efficient method for remotely evaluating usability problems with prototype interfaces. In a previous study, it was noted that this efficiency was at the cost of a loss of the conversational nature of the evaluation present in think-aloud methods. In this paper, we assess this loss through a comparison with an extended LC...