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Stefan Trausan-MatuStefan Trausan-Matu

Computer Science Department,Bucharest "Politehnica" University,

Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Introduction to Cognitive Science, Algorithm analysis

Romanian Academy Institute for Artificial IntelligenceROMANIA

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Research & software developmentResearch & software development

Computational Geometry for CAD of IC LayoutsKnowledge-Based Systems

Expert Systems 1985-1990, Intelligent Reverse Engineering 1992-1994, Intelligent Tutoring Systems 1994-2003, Ontologies and Semantic Web 1998-2004

Computational (Statistical) Linguistics Metaphor Understanding 2000-2004 Text mining 2002-2003 Discourse processing 2003-2004

HCI and e-Learning Learner modeling – cognitive and emotional profiles Experiments with students at CS Dept. at Algorithms Course Log (web browsing behavior) analysis

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Current Research

Developing SINTEC, an intelligent and collaborative e-Learning environmentLanguage Understanding Metaphors Discourse Analysis

Philosophy and CS (Cognitive Science, Hermeneutic Computer Science)

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Metaphor and discourse processing Metaphor and discourse processing

Metaphors are beyond ontologies (“stocks are very sensitive creatures”)The role of metaphors in understandingIdentification (acquisition) of metaphors and metonymies in texts and XML mark-upPersonalized usage of the metaphorsMetaphors – imagery – discourse – dialogSpeech acts identificationRhetorical schemas identification

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SINTEC (2001-2004) SINTEC (2001-2004)

INFOSOC National Program Project Collaborative tools for distance and distributed e-Learning at Bucharest “Politehnica” UniversityWeb services technology Content creation according to metadata standards for e-Learning like IMS, ARIADNE, SCORM, AICCITS technology (ontologies, rules, student modeling and inference)Psychological (cognitive and emotional) and social aspectsNatural language processing