VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, 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 Intelligence ROMANIA

VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, Research & software development Computational Geometry for CAD of IC Layouts Knowledge-Based Systems Expert Systems , Intelligent Reverse Engineering , Intelligent Tutoring Systems , Ontologies and Semantic Web Computational (Statistical) Linguistics Metaphor Understanding Text mining Discourse processing HCI and e-Learning Learner modeling – cognitive and emotional profiles Experiments with students at CS Dept. at Algorithms Course Log (web browsing behavior) analysis

VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, Current Research Developing SINTEC, an intelligent and collaborative e-Learning environment Language Understanding Metaphors Discourse Analysis Philosophy and CS (Cognitive Science, Hermeneutic Computer Science)

VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, 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

VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, SINTEC ( ) 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