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Overview

Jon Oberlander was a researcher affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their work focused primarily on the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology as well as education.

Their research contributions addressed several main topics, including:

  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Science Education and Pedagogy

Jon Oberlander collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors included:

  • Padraic Monaghan
  • Keith Stenning
  • Cecilia Sönströd

Their scholarly publications were concentrated in areas bridging psychology and education, particularly focusing on how educational strategies and science pedagogy could be innovated and developed.

Best Publications

  • A Cognitive Theory of Graphical and Linguistic Reasoning: Logic and Implementation

    Keith Stenning;Jon Oberlander

  • Foundations of Representation: Where Might Graphical Symbol Systems Come From?

    Simon Garrod;Nicolas Fay;John Lee;Jon Oberlander

  • Emotion rating from short blog texts

    Alastair J. Gill;Darren Gergle;Robert M. French;Jon Oberlander

  • Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text

    Jon Oberlander;Scott Nowson

  • Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Jon Oberlander;Robert Dale

  • What Are They Blogging About? Personality, Topic and Motivation in Blogs

    Alastair J. Gill;Scott Nowson;Jon Oberlander

  • Language with character: A stratified corpus comparison of individual differences in e-mail communication

    Jon Oberlander;Alastair J. Gill

  • Large scale personality classification of bloggers

    Francisco Iacobelli;Alastair J. Gill;Scott Nowson;Jon Oberlander

  • ILEX: an architecture for a dynamic hypertext generation system

    M. O'donnell;C. Mellish;J. Oberlander;A. Knott

  • Beyond Elaboration: The Interaction of Relations and Focus in Coherent Text

    Alistair Knott;Jon Oberlander;Michael O'Donnell;Chris Mellish

  • Contrasting the cognitive effects of graphical and sentential logic teaching: Reasoning, representation and individual differences

    Keith Stenning;Richard Cox;Jon Oberlander

  • Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    John Hicks;Jon Oberlander;Richard Shillcock

  • Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

    K. Tamsin Maxwell;Jon Oberlander;W. Bruce Croft

  • The Identity of Bloggers: Openness and Gender in Personal Weblogs.

    Scott Nowson;Jon Oberlander

  • Conversation in the museum: experiments in dynamic hypermedia with the intelligent labelling explorer

    Jon Oberlander;Mick O'Donnell;Chris Mellish;Alistair Knott

  • The language of emotion in short blog texts

    Alastair J. Gill;Robert M. French;Darren Gergle;Jon Oberlander

  • Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

    Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

  • Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Jon Oberlander;Richard Cox;Padraic Monaghan;Keith Stenning

  • Experiments Using Stochastic Search for Text Planning

    Chris Mellish;Alistair Knott;Jon Oberlander;Mick O'Donnell

  • The roles of haptic-ostensive referring expressions in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue

    Mary Ellen Foster;Ellen Gurman Bard;Markus Guhe;Robin L. Hill

  • Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04)

    Nikiforos Karamanis;Massimo Poesio;Chris Mellish;Jon Oberlander

  • Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Patrick G. T. Healey;Simon Garrod;John Lee;Jon Oberlander

  • Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems

    Scott Nowson;Jon Oberlander

  • A cognitive theory of graphical and linguistic reasoning: logic and implementation. Cognitive Science

    Keith Stenning;Jon Oberlander

  • Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Richard Cox;Keith Stenning;Jon Oberlander

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Mellish
Chris Mellish University of Aberdeen
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod University of Glasgow
Robert Dale
Robert Dale Macquarie University
Johanna D. Moore
Johanna D. Moore University of Edinburgh
Alex Lascarides
Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh
Alan W. Black
Alan W. Black Carnegie Mellon University
Ion Androutsopoulos
Ion Androutsopoulos Athens University of Economics and Business
Massimo Poesio
Massimo Poesio Queen Mary University of London
Padraic Monaghan
Padraic Monaghan Lancaster University
Justine Cassell
Justine Cassell Carnegie Mellon University

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