Stefan Trausan-Matu

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Stefan 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 development

• Computational Geometry for CAD of IC Layouts
• Knowledge-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 environment
• Language Understanding
• Metaphors
• Discourse Analysis
• Philosophy and CS (Cognitive Science, Hermeneutic
  Computer Science)

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Metaphor and discourse processing

• Metaphors are beyond ontologies (stocks are very
  sensitive creatures)
• The role of metaphors in understanding
• Identification (acquisition) of metaphors and
  metonymies in texts and XML mark-up
• Personalized usage of the metaphors
• Metaphors imagery discourse dialog
• Speech acts identification
• Rhetorical schemas identification

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SINTEC (2001-2004)

• INFOSOC National Program Project
• Collaborative tools for distance and distributed
  e-Learning at Bucharest Politehnica University
• Web services technology
• Content creation according to metadata standards
  for e-Learning like IMS, ARIADNE, SCORM, AICC
• ITS technology (ontologies, rules, student
  modeling and inference)
• Psychological (cognitive and emotional) and
  social aspects
• Natural language processing