the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

Recommender systems, which filter information based on individual interests, represent a possible remedy for information overload. There are two major types of recommendation techniques—collaborative filtering and content-based. Although the content-based approach alleviates the “cold-start” problem faced by collaborative filtering, this approach generally produces lower accuracy. Thus, a hybri...

A constraint specifies a relation or condition that must be maintained in a system. It is common for a single user graphic system to specify some constraints and provide methods to satisfy these constraints automatically. Constraints are even more useful in collaborative systems, which can confine and coordinate concurrent operations, but satisfying constraints in the presence of concurrency in...

Introduction: Collaborative testing is a learning strategy thatprovides students with the opportunity to learn and practicecollaboration. This study aimed to determine the effect ofcollaborative testing on test performance and retention of coursecontent in nursing students of Shiraz University of MedicalSciences, Shiraz, Iran.Methods: This quasi-experimental study was carried out on 84students ...

This paper discusses how mediation strategies can be used to design a pedagogical agent integrated to a text mining tool to promote collaborative work in academic reading and writing activities. The agent uses the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) to communicate with students, while its text mining features enables it to keep track of what is being produced collaboratively. Mediati...

This paper discusses LOLC, a text-based collaborative music improvisation system for laptop ensemble developed by the authors. The system is contextualized in terms of related work and the specific motivations and goals for the project, and its design and implementation are explained. The paper then evaluates LOLC in the context of a recent performance by professional classical musicians with m...