Assessing students' conceptual understanding using an online three‐tier diagnostic test

When solving a mathematical problem, students who do not have sufficient conceptual understanding may perform poorly and exhibit misconceptions. This study was aimed to examine students' conceptual understanding and significant misconceptions when solving number sense‐related problems. An online three‐tier diagnostic test was administered to 125 fifth‐grade students with varied socio‐economic backgrounds in Hong Kong. Only 14.40% of the students exhibited high performance with high confidence, indicating that these students had a profound conceptual understanding of number sense. In addition, the majority of the students (66.40%) did not demonstrate number sense; these students exhibited several significant misconceptions and could solve the questions only by using a rule‐based method or guessing. Accordingly, most students performed unsatisfactorily on number sense‐related problems. This study is imperative in identifying early predictors and provides information for further compatible interventions in the teaching and learning of number sense in Hong Kong in particular and worldwide in general.     

MOBSY: Integration of vision and dialogue in service robots

Abstract. This contribution introduces MOBSY, a fully integrated, autonomous mobile service robot system. It acts as an automatic dialogue-based receptionist for visitors to our institute. MOBSY incorporates many techniques from different research areas into one working stand-alone system. The techniques involved range from computer vision over speech understanding to classical robotics. Along with the two main aspects of vision and speech, we also focus on the integration aspect, both on the methodological and on the technical level. We describe the task and the techniques involved. Finally, we discuss the experiences that we gained with MOBSY during a live performance at our institute.     

An experiment for showing some kind of artificial understanding

In this paper we design an experiment which can be depicted as a simple scenario, a very limited 'world'. In this world, there are an actor that can pursue a project and an observer that is keeping its eyes on the actor. We try to show in the experiment that the observer can to some degree understand the actor based on its knowledge and some metaphors, i.e. understand what the actor is doing and why. As the conclusion of this experiment, we try to show some features of 'understanding'. These are (1) that 'understanding' has to be based on some preliminary knowledge; (2) that 'understanding' is a process of incremental learning; (3) that, as for symbolic systems, some metaphors are necessary for mapping real entities into concepts in mind.     

A protocol for performance evaluation of line detection algorithms

Accurate and efficient vectorization of line drawings is essential for any higher level processing in document analysis and recognition systems. In spite of the prevalence of vectorization and line detection methods, no standard for their performance evaluation protocol exists. We propose a protocol for evaluating both straight and circular line extraction to help compare, select, improve, and even design line detection algorithms to be incorporated into line drawing recognition and understanding systems. The protocol involves both positive and negative sets of indices, at pixel and vector levels. Time efficiency is also included in the protocol. The protocol may be extended to handle lines of any shape as well as other classes of graphic objects.     

信息理解系统的结构及理解过程

主要讨论消息理解的基本模式及其信息理解系统，并且讨论了二类消息的语义理解例以及理解客观度．     

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本文根据四川天然气产能建设多年的实践,分析了产能建设的特点和存在问题,着重强调了当前搞好产能建设应注意的几个问题,供决策和工作参考。     

整体观察是绘画的关键——浅谈基础美术教学中的认识问题

本文就整体观察的形式、内容两个方面进行了分析、归纳。论述了认识在绘画中的重要作用。     

中国图像工程:2011

该文是中国图像工程的年度文献综述系列之十七。为了使国内广大从事图像工程研究和图像技术应用的科技人员能够较全面地了解国内图像工程研究和发展的现状,并能方便地查询有关文献,从2011年在国内15种有关图像工程重要中文期刊共134期上发表的3 215篇学术研究和技术应用文献中,选取出797篇属于图像工程领域的文献,并根据各文献的主要内容将其分别归入图像处理,图像分析,图像理解,技术应用和综述5个大类,然后进一步分入23个专业小类(与前6年相同)。在此基础上还进行了各期刊各类文献的统计和分析。根据统计分析结果可看到中国图像工程在2011年许多新进展的情况。     

图像信息对句子语义理解与表示的有效性验证与分析

近年来,图像文本建模研究已经成为自然语言处理领域一个重要的研究方向.图像常被用于增强句子的语义理解与表示.然而也有研究人员对图像信息用于句子语义理解的必要性提出质疑,原因是文本本身就能够提供强有力的先验知识,帮助模型取得非常好的效果;甚至在不使用图像的条件下就能得出正确的答案.因此研究图像文本建模需要首先回答一个问题:图像是否有助于句子语义的理解与表示?为此,本文选择一个典型的不包含图像的自然语言语义理解任务:自然语言推理,并将图像信息引入到该任务中用于验证图像信息的有效性.由于自然语言推理任务是一个单一的自然语言任务,在数据标注过程中没有考虑图像信息,因此选择该任务能够更客观地分析出图像信息对句子语义理解与表示的影响.具体而言,本文提出一种通用的即插即用框架(general plug and play framework)用于图像信息的整合.基于该框架,本文选择目前最先进的五个自然语言推理模型,对比分析这些模型在使用图像信息前后的表现,以及使用不同图像处理模型与不同图像设置时的表现.最后,本文在一个大规模公开数据集上进行了大量实验,实验结果证实图像作为额外知识,确实有助于句子语义的理解与表示.此外,还证实了不同的图像处理模型和使用方法对整个模型的表现也会造成不同的影响.