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Brown, Susan Windisch – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The deep semantic understanding necessary for complex natural language processing tasks, such as automatic question-answering or text summarization, would benefit from highly accurate word sense disambiguation (WSD). This dissertation investigates what makes an appropriate and effective sense inventory for WSD. Drawing on theories and…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation
Zhang, Pengyi – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this thesis is to improve our understanding of sensemaking process as a basis for building better systems to assist sensemaking. Sensemaking is the task of creating an understanding of a problem or task so that further actions may be taken in an informed manner. Sensemaking is a pre-requisite for many other tasks such as decision…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Concept Mapping, Protocol Analysis, Cognitive Structures
Madison, Sandra Kay – 1995
Parameter passing is the mechanism by which various program modules share information in a complex program; this paper was a study of novice programmers' understanding of the parameter construct. The bulk of the data was collected from interviews with eight college students enrolled in a state university introductory computer programming course.…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Computer System Design