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Record 1 2024-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
DEF

... a computer-based instruction system intended to provide effective, appropriate, and flexible instruction through the application of artificial intelligence techniques and knowledge representations.

CONT

An intelligent tutor must be able... to generate instructional material : to present the subject matter, ask questions of the student, give examples, and give explanations to the student. [It] must be able to answer free-form questions from the student. The tutor must be able to evaluate the student's responses or behavior [and] to diagnose student errors, or "bugs. "... And once the source of the error has been found, the tutor has to figure out the most efficient way to correct the student's misunderstanding. Finally, intelligent tutors must themselves be able to learn.

OBS

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) find their roots in the Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) movement of the 1950s. ... The major advance of ITS, or Intelligent CAI systems, as they are also called, is the use of techniques of knowledge representation pioneered within the Knowledge Engineering community.

OBS

The first three letters of "intelligent tutoring system" are often capitalized. The phrases "computer tutor" or "computer-based tutor" are opposed to "human tutor."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Logiciels
  • Internet et télématique
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
DEF

Système d'enseignement assisté par ordinateur intégrant des techniques d'intelligence artificielle permettant un apprentissage progressif et individualisé.

CONT

Un système EIAO est capable de prendre en compte les paramètres pédagogiques suivants : niveau de l'apprenant, degré de difficulté souhaité, objectif d'enseignement spécifié.

CONT

[...] un tutoriel intelligent doit être capable d'acquérir des connaissances par lui-même, c'est-à-dire d'apprendre. [...] les connaissances d'un tutoriel intelligent se répartissent en quatre ensembles : le modèle du domaine, le modèle d'enseignement-apprentissage, le modèle de l'élève et l'interface gérant le dialogue entre l'élève et l'ordinateur.

OBS

Contrairement aux didacticiels classiques auxquels on peut les comparer, les tutoriels intelligents possèdent des connaissances sur le sujet à enseigner, sur l'élève et sur la pédagogie. Ils adoptent une approche misant sur l'activité de l'étudiant et où le tuteur électronique est avant tout un conseiller.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Soporte lógico (Software)
  • Internet y telemática
  • Técnicas y equipo audiovisuales
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Record 2 2022-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A curve that is calculated mathematically to connect separate points into smooth, free-form curves and surfaces of the type needed for illustration programs and CAD [computer-aided design] models.

CONT

Bezier curves need only a few control points to define a large number of shapes ...

Key term(s)
  • curve of Bezier

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
CONT

Une courbe de Bézier permet de façonner itérativement la géométrie en conception, une courbe de Bézier passe par les points de contrôle, repose sur la distribution binomiale, subit une translation.

PHR

courbe de Bézier rationnelle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gráficos de computadora
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Record 3 2017-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
CONT

Unstructured information... Digital information that is often created in free-form text using common desktop applications such as e-mail, word-processing, or presentation applications.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
CONT

Information non structurée […] Information numérique qui est souvent créée en texte de format libre au moyen d'une des applications courantes de bureautique, comme les logiciels de courrier électronique, de traitement de texte ou de présentation.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A free-form curve allowing to visualize the concepts of tension and skew effect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Forming
CONT

"Laser Free-Form Consolidation is an emerging material forming technique through which net shape parts are built layer by layer. "

OBS

CNRC "Manufacturing Technologies Annual Performance Report (1998-99), p. 21.

Key term(s)
  • net-shape part

French

Domaine(s)
  • Formage des métaux
OBS

Formage de matériaux. [...] technique de pointe de formage des matériaux permettant de produire, une couche à la fois, des pièces ne nécessitant aucune finition ultérieure [...].

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

Gardens... can be anything the gardener wants : wild or ordered, utilitarian(a vegetable patch or cut-flower plot) or aesthetic--geometrical or free-form.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

Les idées du propriétaire d'un terrain, les remarques que suggère ce terrain, l'habitation, le cadre, etc. aboutissent à l'établissement d'un programme. Prendre parti, c'est encore définir la place des éléments principaux du futur jardin (terrasse, emplacement de jeux, salle de repos, carrés de cultures potagères), en fonction de ce programme.

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Jazz
DEF

Spontaneously experimental, free-form jazz, popularized as an avant-garde phenomenon in the 1960's by various soloists and characterized by random expression and disregard for traditional structures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jazz
DEF

Style de jazz fondé sur l'improvisation collective hors toute contrainte harmonique, et avec une grande liberté mélodique et rythmique.

Spanish

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Record 8 1985-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
OBS

free-form : pertaining to entry of data or the coding of statements without regard for predefined formats.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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