Function-described graphs (FDGs) have been introduced very recently as a representation of an ensemble of attributed relational graphs (ARGs) for structural pattern recognition 1, 2]. In this paper, the relationship between FDGs and Random Graphs 3] is analysed and the synthesis process of FDGs is studied, whereas the matching process between FDGs and ARGs is discussed elsewhere 4]. Two procedu...

Abstract This systematic quantitative literature review was conducted to analyse and synthesise the extant corpus of knowledge on dialogic pedagogy within school settings, thus identify theoretical methodological gaps in literature, which might suggest new avenues for research. A search eight databases (2014–2020) revealed an initial pool 2443 papers, reduced 61 after screening eligibility. An ...

PURPOSE (1) To verify the existence (or not) of hesitation marks in the beginning of utterances in children's discourse; and (2) to determine to what extent the presence/absence of these marks could be explained by retrievable facts in the production conditions of their discourses. METHODS Interview situations with four children aged 5-6 years attending Kindergarten level II in a public presc...

The driving vision for our work is to provide intelligent, automated assistance to users in understanding the status of their email conversations. Our approach is to create tools that enable the detection and connection of speech acts across email messages. We thus require a mechanism for tagging email utterances with some indication of their dialogic function. However, existing dialog act taxo...

We present in this article the model function-described graph (FDG), which is a type of compact representation of a set of attributed graphs (AGs) that borrow from random graphs the capability of probabilistic modelling of structural and attribute information. We de4ne the FDGs, their features and two distance measures between AGs (unclassi4ed patterns) and FDGs (models or classes) and we also ...

This commentary engages with essentially contestable questions raised by the School of the Dialogue of Cultures. It focuses on questions about how theory should relate to practice and how a "dialogic" approach can involve students in simultaneously rigorous and relevant academic discussions. Disciplines Education | Educational Psychology Comments Wortham, S. (2011). Wondering about dialogic the...

Several recent research projects in artificial intelligence are devoted to the development of natural, multi-modal user-machine interfaces. Most of the work in this field share, more or less explicitly, the assumption that artificial agents who are competent in multi-modal communication should possess both context awareness and meta-cognitive abilities such as being able to represent and make i...

Much currently transmitted information takes the form of e-mails or SMS text messages and so extracting information from such short messages is increasingly important. The words in a message can be partitioned into the syntactic structure, terms from the domain of discourse and the data being transmitted. This paper describes a light-weight Information Extraction component which uses pattern ma...

structures of explicit reasoning, or to simple notions of constructing shared knowledge. They consist more in a divergent exploration of a field of potential perspectives on a topic. Through using this tool participants report that they are stimulated to think more deeply (Wegerif, Ravenscroft and McAlister, 2005). Conclusions The teaching and learning of general thinking skills, especially cre...