Archive for July, 2005
The Dilogue Acts concept – Harry Bunt
Here I will resume the Dilogue Acts (DA) concept which could be used to:
support conceptual analyis of human diologue
as support in the interpretation and generation of utterance in dialogue systems,
to annotate dialogue corpus material
define interagent communication between software agents
Harry Bunt define the Dilogue Act as following :
A dialogue act is a unit in the [...]
Plaxo
Plaxo is a software which adds a plug-in to mail-clients (outlook). It allows to keep the address book information quickly and easily up to date. you can send a updating form to a contact and the contact information he fills will be automatically updated in your address book. If the contact is already a Plaxo [...]
File Inventory – Software
File Inventory is a simple application which enables to print out or save a list of the files from any drive, folder or Zip archive present on a device. It gives you control over the editing, formatting and appearance of the list.
It’s particularly usefull for CSMM (computer supported music making) users:
If you have large libraries [...]
Interactions and performance in Ressource Interdependent Collaborative Learning – PART II
In the second study more in propose for our projects, Buchs and al. explored the following hypotheses:
H1: Working on complementary information will result in more involvement and efforts in information transmission, whereas working on identical information will enhance confrontation and competence threat.
H2: Summaries of simpler texts should be more informative; consequently listeners accessing information only [...]
Interactions and performance in Ressource Interdependent Collaborative Learning – PART I
This is a succinct review of an interesting paper I read from Céline Buchs, Fabrizio Butera and Gabriel Mugny called: “Resource Interdependence, Student Interaction and Performance in Cooperative Learningâ€.
The paper present 2 related studies carried out to analyze the effects of resource interdependence on performance. Subjects worked in pair on complementary information (positive resource interdependence [...]
Jesus in a light
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) – City officials have turned off a streetlight that drew more than 250 people to see a shadow that some say resembles the image of Jesus Christ.
East Chicago Police Chief Angelo Machuca called an emergency meeting Sunday to recommend the light be turned off in the interest of public safety after [...]
talk of Carolyn P. Rosé
Carolyn P. Rosé présented today morning her work on the field of corpus data analyses systems for behavioral researchers.
Abstract In this talk I introduce the objectives of the TagHelper project, which is an applied research project exploring the application of text classification technology to support corpus coding for behavioral research. A wide range of behavioral [...]
Chat display direction
I was wondering about the fact that there is no horizontal display improving chats: I mean, chats where messages appear horizontally one after another. The must common chat is probably the descending one. A uncommon and oldfashioned version is the ascending one (messages are written in a bottom case but are appearing just on top [...]
Parents birthday gift
Nashville parents were sentenced to two years probation and to take parenting classes. The Charge : contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Landon and Anette Pharris to hired a stripper for their son’s 16th birthday party.
“Mom said they wanted to do something special for their son. She said they even had grandpa there. The [...]
Team – Definition
Here we have a usefull difinition of the “Team” concept provided by Salas, Dickinson, Converse and Tannenbaum (1992) :
team is “a distinguishable set of two or more people who interact dynamically, interdependently, and adaptatively toward a common and valued goal/object/mission, who have each been assigned specific roles or functions to perform, and who have a [...]
