Flip (formerly Flipgrid) was developed almost 10 years ago as a tool to allow opportunities for engagement and social presence in virtual learning environment. Recently, we have seen an explosion of Flip’s use by PreK-adult educators, not surprisingly, literature focused on use, frequency, implementation strategies. What is missing from the systematic analysis what integration looks like broade...

The world is too complex to manage without radical functional simplification. Meaning appears to exist as the basis for such simplification. The meaning that guides functional simplification may be usefully considered as consisting of three classes. The first class consists of meanings of the determinate world. These are meanings based in motivation, emotion, and personal and social identity. F...

The optimal combination of language model (LM) and language understanding model (LUM) varies depending on available training data and utterances to be handled. Usually, a lot of effort and time are needed to find the optimal combination. Instead, we have designed and developed a new framework that uses multiple LMs and LUMs to improve speech understanding accuracy under various situations. As o...

According to an “external grounding” theory of meaning, a concept’s meaning depends on its connection to the external world. By a “conceptual web” account, a concept’s meaning depends on its relations to other concepts within the same system. We explore one aspect of meaning, the identification of matching concepts across systems (e.g. people, theories, or cultures). We present a computational ...

By the performance of language acts, participants in an organisation initiate action and report about results. An unambiguous interpretation of these language acts is important for the modelling of business communication. In the actual realisation of business conversations the communicative intention of the speaker often differs from the grammatical meaning of the sentence. This paper focuses o...