This study discusses the automatic coding methods of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework for multilingual contexts, in particular. In universities, foreign students cannot be overlooked, and learning systems are also required to work in multilingual situations. However, none of the existing work has addressed the lack of language-agnostic and…

Pragmatic competence is essential for oral fluency and listening comprehension, allowing speakers to use and interpret language appropriately in varied contexts. The use of technological applications for teaching pragmatics is on the rise (Taguchi & Sykes, 2013), in part because they are well-suited to the types of awareness-raising tasks…

Construction grammar (CG) has been proposed as an adequate grammatical formalism for building intelligent language tutoring systems because it is highly compatible with the learning strategies observed in second language learning. Unfortunately, the lack of computational CG implementations has made it impossible in the past to corroborate these…

Describes LEARN, a software system for computer assisted foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Notes that the system processes English unrestricted text by translating selected English words in it into foreign words before presenting the text to the student. Points out that the natural path for the system's future is to add more languages. (23…

A research program was planned to develop a first, experimental computer-assisted instruction system that would permit interaction with students in a subset natural English. At the base of this system was a model of cognition that would represent the knowledge content of the material to be taught and the student's current knowledge of it. A…

This paper defines the structure of a semantic network for use in representing discourse and lexical meanings. The structure is designed to represent underlying semantic meanings that, with a lexicon and a grammar, can generate natural-language sentences in a linguistically justifiable manner. The semantics of natural English can be defined as a…

BEFORE ESTABLISHING HOW A DIGITAL COMPUTER COULD BE USED FOR DESCRIBING BASIC CONTRASTS BETWEEN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND STANDARD UKRAINIAN, IT WAS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP A SET OF SYMBOLS CORRESPONDING TO CERTAIN ELEMENTARY DESCRIPTIVE UNITS OF GRAPHEMICS, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND SYNTAX AND TO APPLY THESE SYMBOLS TO ENCODING FOR THE IBM 7094. THE…

Research and development work on the use of the SCHOLAR autotutorial, online system is described. Inference strategies used within the system are deductive, negative, and functional in character. A graphics package allows user to ask questions and give commands in English to control SCHOLAR's map display capability. The examples shown are for…

The system described in this report is designed for use as a computational tool that allows a linguist to develop and study methods for generating surface strings from an underlying semantic structure. Initial findings with regard to form-determiners (such as voice, form, tense, and mood), some rules for embedding sentences, and some attention to…

The Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD) helps a person make decisions in choosing a vocation by collecting and processing data which include the following areas of information: college, career, military service, family, and the user's responses. It is vital that the machine be made to understand English--the natural language of the…