Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts AVenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, CNR-INFM, Laboratorio Nazionale TASC BasoVizza, 30142 Trieste, Italy, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UniVersity of PennsylVania, Philadelphia, PennsylVania 19104, and Mechanical Engineering Department, UniVersity ...

The concept of metadata is not new, but currently its use is rather restricted. One of the areas it is actually employed, although usually only to a small extent, is E-Learning. Reasons for this slow adoption are the additional work required for adding it and a lack of applications providing direct advantages to end users. Some approaches to ameliorate both problems are presented in this paper ...

It is recognized that electronic management of terminology spans a large range of activities. It is important to have easy access to well structured terminologies, but it is also relevant to model and recognize terms within a text. This allows, among others, multilingual cross references and the development of advanced indexing tools. The aim of this paper is to explain how we model and treat t...

This paper describes an automatic process for combining patterns and features, to guide a search process and reason about it. It is based on the functionality that a human brain might have, which is a highly distributed network of simple neuronal components that can apply some level of matching and cross-referencing over retrieved patterns. The process uses memory in a more dynamic way and it c...

This work investigates to what degree speakers with different verbal intelligence may adapt to each other. The work is based on a corpus consisting of 100 descriptions of a short film (monologues), 56 discussions about the same topic (dialogues), and verbal intelligence scores of the test participants. Adaptation between two dialogue partners was measured using cross-referencing, proportion of ...