Information provided by the linguistic context has been shown to have a strong facilitatory effect on the activation and processing of upcoming words. The studies described in this paper aim to model the relation between context and target words using a distributional semantic model. We report three modelling studies in which we show that this model can successfully capture context effects in h...

A tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experience refers to the state in which a speaker is temporally unable to retrieve a word from memory, while being sure that he knows the word. The recovered partial information can consist of competing items that resemble the target word phonologically or semantically and could give rise to competition or conflict during attempts to resolve the TOT. A question that ha...

LeActiveMath (Language-Enhanced,User-Adaptive, Interactive eLearning for Mathematics) is an interdisciplinary European effort that develops an internationalized Web-based intelligent e-Learning system for mathematics that can be used in high school and university as well as for self study.Themany technological innovations serve amoderate constructivist and competency-based pedagogical approach....

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Concept Search extends syntactic search, i.e., search based on the computation of string similarity between words, with semantic search, i.e., search based on the computation of semantic relations between complex concepts. It allows us to deal with ambiguity of natural language. P2P Concept Search extends Concept Search by allowing distributed semantic search over structured P2P network. The ke...

This paper presents a novel method for semantic annotation and search of a target corpus using several knowledge resources (KRs). This method relies on a formal statistical framework in which KR concepts and corpus documents are homogeneously represented using statistical language models. Under this framework, we can perform all the necessary operations for an efficient and effective semantic a...