Invitation: Special Issue: Bringing Dialogism to Bear on the Early Years

Chunks and Dependencies: Bringing Processing Evidence to Bear on Syntax

At least some psycholinguists exploring how sentences are structured in linguistic behavior have concluded that the “performance structures” that emerge from experimental data differ from the syntactic structures hypothesized by linguists. For example, one measure of structure is the location and relative prominence of pauses when subjects read sentences aloud. Experiments have indicated that t...

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization

As the amount of online information increases, systems that can automatically summarize one or more documents become increasingly desirable. Recent research has investigated types of summaries, methods to create them, and methods to evaluate them. Several evaluation competitions (in the style of NIST’s TREC1) have helped determine baseline performance levels and provide a limited set of trainin...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Personalization

IN the traditional classroom, learning suffers from the difficulties that teachers face in meeting the needs of each student. At many times, it is unavoidable that teaching must take a “one size fits all” approach. Personalization in this setting is prohibitively expensive. Technology-enhanced learning offers the potential to implement not only personalization, but even automated personalizatio...

Introduction to the Special Issue on “Optomechatronics”