1. VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, 20041 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

2. VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, 20042 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

3. VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, 20043 Current Research Developing SINTEC, an intelligent and collaborative e-Learning environment Language Understanding Metaphors Discourse Analysis Philosophy and CS (Cognitive Science, Hermeneutic Computer Science)

4. VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, 20044 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

5. VMT Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 9-11, 20045 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