The goal of our work is to improve the Natural Language feedback provided by Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In this paper, we discuss how to make the content presented by one such system more ¤uent and comprehensible, and we show how we accomplish this by using relatively inexpensive domain-independent text structuring techniques. We show how speci£c rhetorical relations can be introduced based ...

Fine-Grained lexicalization has been treated as a post process to refine the machine planned discourse and make the machine generated language more coherent and more fluent. Without this process, a system can still generate comprehensible languages but may sound unnatural and sometimes frustrate its users. To this end, generating coherent and natural sounding language is a major concern in any ...

Cluster integrals are evaluated for the coefficients of the combined temperature- and density-expansion of pressure: Z = 1 + B2(β) η + B3(β) η(2) + B4(β) η(3) + ⋯, where Z is the compressibility factor, η is the packing fraction, and the B(i)(β) coefficients are expanded as a power series in reciprocal temperature, β, about β = 0. The methodology is demonstrated for square-well spheres with λ =...

Our primary objective is evaluation of quality of process. This is addressed through semantic mapping of process. We note how this is complementary to the primacy of output results or products. We use goal-oriented discourse as a case study. We draw benefit from how social and political theorist, Jürgen Habermas, uses what was termed “communicative action”. An orientation in Habermas’s work, th...

Rates of planned home birth in the United States have remained at less than 1% for several decades, but current public discourse suggests that women are increasingly interested in this option. International investigators have defined "planned home birth" as the care of selected pregnant women by qualified practitioners within a system that provides for hospitalization when necessary. Safety of ...

Rates of planned home birth in the United States have remained at less than 1% for several decades, but current public discourse suggests that women are increasingly interested in this option. International investigators have defined "planned home birth" as the care of selected pregnant women by qualified practitioners within a system that provides for hospitalization when necessary. Safety of ...

The classical “success story” of corpus annotation are the various syntax treebanks that provide structural analyses of sentences and have enabled researchers to develop a range of new and highly successful data-oriented approaches to sentence parsing. In recent years, however, a number of corpora have been constructed that provide annotations on the discourse level, i.e. information that reach...