Recent research in computational music research, including my own, has been greatly influenced by methods in computational linguistics. But I believe the influence could also go the other way: Music may offer some interesting lessons for language research, particularly with regard to the modeling of cognition. In this talk I will focus on an important problem in music cognition: the problem of ...

The specific problem addressed in this paper is the lack of assessment and feedback tools appropriate to support learning and instruction in complex and dynamic task domains. In such domains, representative problems can be identified but they often lack single solutions, and there is a great deal of variability between and among problems. As a consequence, in order to determine progress of lear...

Docking is possibly the most widely used technique in structure-based drug design. It is recognized as extremely useful to guide the development of active molecules as well as in virtual screening to identify new leads. But docking is also notoriously imperfect and many aspects need to improve. In this talk I will present our work on two different sources of errors in the docking predictions: p...

Inference is an important strategy that could be applied in listening activities. It could help one to grasp the meanings of an oral message by analysing textual and contextual information. When the listener has difficulties in activities because of his poor linguistic skills, it is strongly recommended that he apply the inference strategy efficiently. But how and to what degree does this strat...

Taken literally, the term “requirements engineering” (RE) is a misnomer. A requirement is something that is wanted; engineering, according to Webster’s, is calculated manipulation. If our wants would arise by calculated manipulation, then something would be wrong. Our wants should not be engineered. What should be engineered, are solutions that meet our wants. So what is requirements engineerin...

Designing cognitive tutors and modeling behavior for ill-defined domains require innovative methods and techniques. We combine a top-down, theoretical approach with a bottom-up, empirical approach to develop a student model for the selection of aspect in French verbs. In performing this task, we design a new representation applicable to feature-driven ill-defined problem spaces and utilize tuto...

I consider phenomenological changes in the standard solar model with the goal of testing recent claims that the solar neutrino puzzle requires new particle physics. The assumption of a steady-state sun producing the correct luminosity and governed by standard microphysics appears to leave only one nonstandard solar model possibility open, slow mixing of the solar core on timescales characterist...

Researchers investigated the effects of a read-aloud modification on students' performance on a reading comprehension test. A total of 338 students in Grades 4 and 5 participated; 76 of these students (22%) received special education services, the majority of whom were labeled learning disabled. Students completed a standardized reading comprehension test under two conditions: (a) standard admi...

In this review talk I cover some recent developments in understanding the role that magnetic fields play in cataclysmic variables. I discuss the recent DNO–QPO unification models; the disk–magnetosphere boundary; some issues concerning the soft blackbody component and the nature of the X-ray spectra in MCVs; whether the SW Sex stars are magnetic, and finally I mention the weird behavior of FS A...

This paper reports on a pilot study that is concerned with the cognitive aspects of reading in an electronic environment. The study focuses on text based electronic documents. A cognitive model for hypertext document reading proposed in an earlier work is here developed and validated with the use of think aloud protocols. The model is concerned with the general cognitive processes that take pla...