Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: from algorithm to curriculum

(vocabulary in context, learning words from context, words in context)

Project Directors:	Welcome to the home page of the SUNY Buffalo Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition Project!
William J. Rapaport
SNePS Research Group
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Philosophy
and Center for Cognitive Science
and	Last Update: 19 January 2013 Note: NEW or UPDATED material is highlighted
Michael W. Kibby
Department of Learning and Instruction
and The Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction

• Description of the CVA project
  • Cochrane, Mary (2005, 3 Feb), "Learning New Words by Searching for Clues", UB Reporter, Vol. 36, No. 20.

  • "Word Clues: Helping Kids Learn to Read", Medstar Source (20 Oct 2005)
    • Full Script
    • Background
    • WSPA-TV NewsChannel 7 (Spartanburg, SC)
    • WHOI-TV Channel 19 (Peoria, IL)

  • "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition as Computational Philosophy and as Philosophical Computation" (streaming video of NACAP 2006 talk)

• How to contact us.

• Bibliography of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition
  • Essential CVA readings
    • Really Essential CVA Readings

• Papers, progress reports, and related documents

• Slide shows

• Words and contexts UPDATED

• Algorithms

• Natural Language resources

• Educational resources

• Research-group resources

• Summary of recent work

• LAI688: Meaning Vocabulary (Spring 2005)

• Spring 2011 Research Group