Masoud Yazdani

Merryanna L. Swartz

Multilingual communication within the world community is important for economic, political, and cultural interactions. In a global environment where other languages are increasing in importance in addition to recognized intemational standards (i. e., English and French), language learning is becoming more important for improved international relations. At the same time, recent advances in instructional technology make the promise of building intelligent tutoring systems in advanced technology laboratories to teach these language skills a reality in the near future. These tutoring systems, therefore, may help us foster improved methods for acquiring languages. As active language learners and instructional technology researchers, we felt an international meeting with similar individuals was needed to discuss how such advanced tutoring systems are to be designed and implemented. We held such a meeting, the results of which are presented in this volume. The purpose of this Advanced Workshop, sponsored by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, was to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers who were active in the development of intelligent tutoring systems for foreign language learning. Participants came from computer science, computational linguistics, psychology, and foreign language learning. Washington, D.C. was selected for the Workshop site since it is Merryanna's home city, the capitol of the United States, and an international, multilingual community in its own right. Masoud agreed to the location (with a promise to be shown the White House!) and graciously volunteered to coordinate activities from the European side.

The Bridge to International Communication

Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Language Learning

Robert Walter Lawler

Artificial Intelligence and Education: Learning environments and tutoring systems

Richard Broughton

Jocelyn Paine

Prometheus is an advanced programming environment for the development of knowledge-based software. It owes its comparative simplicity, consistency and power to the ideas of logic programming. Prometheus, while using logic as the basis of representation language, offers frames to allow for natural representation of structured domains. The book starts with a general Representation Language and the Development Environment. It ends with a study of how Prometheus and Prolog can be combined for advanced programming projects.

An Advanced Logic Based AI Toolkit

Prometheus

Philip Barker

Our society is becoming a more visual culture day-by-day. This book offers detailed analyses of how to combine words with pictures to communicate clearly across cultural barriers. While some information is better communicated by one kind of media than another, some information is communicated most effectively through a combination of media. This book presents a critical framework within which iconic communication systems can be developed to truly bridge linguistic and cultural gaps and to provide effective computer-based systems for conveying information on a global scale. With valuable insights for the Information and Communication industries, this book draws on the work presented at several conferences on the subject and is designed primarily for graphic designers and human-computer interface developers as well as supplementary reading on degree courses in Information Technology.

Iconic Communication

Masoud Yazdani

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