A multimedia framework for effective language training

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 761-777

  Gross, Markus ^a   Voegeli, Christian ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Dybuster Inc   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coding; Dyslexia; Entropy; Information theory; Learning; Natural language; Visual information; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; ENTROPY; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DYSLEXIA; LANGUAGE TRAINING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 35348931566     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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