This abstract summarizes how we improved task choice – picking a story to read – in successive versions of a Reading Tutor that listens to elementary students read aloud. We wanted to motivate children to spend time on the Reading Tutor by giving them some choice in what to read, without spending too much time picking stories. We also wanted them to read plenty of new text, so as to build vocab...

SPARQL queries can be represented in RDF in order to work with them as first-class citizen in Semantic Web applications. The representation used so far, SPIN SPARQL, closely follows the abstract syntax tree, but fails to directly capture the semantics and is hard to work with for query rewriting. Here a novel vocabulary based on SPARQL Algebra is presented. The adequacy of the language is empir...

Work Package WP 2, Semantics‐Based Geospatial Information Management Task T 2.2 Type Prototype Approval Status Final Version 1.0 Number of Pages 46 Filename D2.2.1_Integration_of_external_geospatial_databases.pdf Abstract: This document presents two tools, Sparqlify and TripleGeo, for transforming geospatial data from several conventional formats, into RDF triples, compliant with several standa...

Judit Ács Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences [email protected] Abstract We describe a method for expanding existing dictionaries in several languages by discovering previously non-existent links between translations. We call this method triangulation and we present and compare several variations of it. We assess precision manually, and recall by comparing the ...

Our project studies social aspects of innovative vocabulary use in early English letters. In this abstract we describe the current state of our method for detecting neologisms. The problem we are facing at the moment is the fact that our corpus consists of non-normalized text. Therefore, spelling normalization is the first step we need to solve before we can apply automatic methods to the whole...

Abstract: The Purpose of Multidimensional modeling is to provide the business analyst with a tool to get quick answers on totals and averages from an attribute in a dataset. Moreover, the user could switch quickly to totals on sub-group level. This white paper includes description logics, language, concept language and semantic of cube operators, description of an object-centered framework for ...

convictions are strong that multimedia courseware holds great promise for enhancing learning efficiency among learners. this study thus aimed at comparing the effects of the multimedia programs introducing 100 vocabulary items through pictures and streaming video with those of teacher instruction on increasing efl learners’ vocabulary repertoire. a total of 120 subjects were identified as inter...

Kanav Kahol, Priyamvada Tripathi, Sethuraman Panchanathan Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) Arizona State University 699 S Mill Avenue Tempe, Arizona-85281, USA {kanav,pia,panch}@asu.edu Abstract We present a novel technique for motion annotation that adapts to a user’s style and vocabulary of basic movements, herein called gestures. Initial testing suggests that software based ...

Model programs are used as high-level behavioral specifications typically representing abstract state machines. For modeling reactive systems, one uses input-output model programs, where the action vocabulary is divided between two conceptual players: the input player and the output player. The players share the action vocabulary and make moves that are labeled by actions according to their res...