From - Mon Apr 26 09:16:12 2004 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.740 Subject: CONTEXTUAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:01:07 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Computer Science and Engineering Lines: 40 Sender: Ncs@buffalo.edu Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: wasat.cse.buffalo.edu X-Trace: prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu 1082984467 14697 128.205.32.15 (26 Apr 2004 13:01:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:01:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.740:119 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: CONTEXTUAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION PRESENTATION BY RAPAPORT & KIBBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TODAY, April 26, Bill Rapaport [Computer Science and Engineering] and Michael Kibby [Learning and Instruction] will be presenting a research symposium from 1:00 to 3:30 on Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition. It will be held in the Reading Center, 17 Baldy Hall. This is a dress rehearsal for our session at the International Reading Association the following week. You are cordially invited to attend. ======================================================================== Research Symposium Reading Center 17 Baldy Hall Monday, April 26 1:00 to 3:30 Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: From Algorithm to Curriculum Abstract: The reasoning involved in contextual vocabulary acquisition is described from analyses of verbal protocols of good readers and results of AI computer algorithms. William J. Rapaport Department of Computer Science & Engineering Department of Philosophy, and Center for Cognitive Science Michael W. Kibby Department of Learning & Instruction and The Reading Center Karen M. Wieland Department of Learning & Instruction , The Reading Center, and The Nichols School