NLP-based personal learning assistant for school education

An NLP Assistant for Clide

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Reinforcement Learning of User Preferences for a Ubiquitous Personal Assistant

Reinforcement Learning of Context Models for a Ubiquitous Personal Assistant

Ubiquitous environments may become a reality in a foreseeable future and research is aimed on making them more and more adapted and comfortable for users. Our work consists on applying reinforcement learning techniques in order to adapt services provided by a ubiquitous assistant to the user. The learning produces a context model, associating actions to perceived situations of the user. Associa...

PCA: Jini-based Personal Card Assistant

We describe the Personal Card Assistant, a scenario that brings together PDAs and smart cards. The underlying idea is that a PDA acts as a personal device for controlling a smart card attached to it using an asymmetric key pair. We describe how such an approach can be used for creating digital signatures: in particular, we can circumvent the problems involved with untrusted document viewers in ...

Using Irish NLP resources in Primary School Education

This paper looks at the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources in primary school education in Ireland. It shows how two Irish NLP resources, the Irish Finite State Transducer Morphological Engine (IFSTME) (Uí Dhonnchadha, 2002) and Gramadóir (Scannell, 2005) were used as the underlying engines for two Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) resources for Irish. The IFSTME was use...