Judith Knapp Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism Drususallee 1/Viale Druso 1 39100 BOZEN-BOLZANO  Tel. +39 0471 055 055  Fax +39 0471 055 199 contact

About me:

Education:

• A-Level at Realgymnasium Bruneck, Brunico, Italy, 1991
• Intensive Course on Complex Analysis at the University of Aveiro, Department of Mathematics, Portugal, March 1996
• Erasmus (European student exchange programm) at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London, GB, 1994/1995
• Master in Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, 1998
• Leonardo (European student exchange programm) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, 1999
• PhD at the University of Hanover, Germany, 2004 

Master thesis

Judith Knapp, Zur Theorie und Numerik von Blow-up-Effekten bei einer speziellen Klasse von nichtlinearen parabolischen Gleichungen, Diplomarbeit, Technische Universität Graz - Institut für Mathematik,1998.

Blow-up-effects in nonlinear parabolic initial-boundary value problems of the form  u(t) = Δu + Q(u) have been investigated. First by reviewing the literature theorems about existence, uniqueness, boundedness and explosion time of the solution have been collected. Then three different numerical methods for calculating the solution of the equation have been compared, namely (1) multi-grid iteration (with waveform relaxation for the smoothing part), (2) the method of Runge-Kutta and (3) the method of Crank-Nicolson combined with multi-grid iteration.

The third method was the core part of the evaluation. Due to this combination the instationary problem reduces to a sequence of stationary problems for which the Picard iteration has been used for the smoothing part. Unlike classical smoothing methods (like the Gauß-Seidel-Newton method or the Jakobi method) the Picard iteration has very good smoothing effects and very good convergence properties for these equations. The algorithms have been implemented and tested in Matlab.

Here is the abstract in German, the abstract in English, and the thesis in PS (2MB).

PhD thesis

Judith Knapp, A New Approach to CALL Content Authoring, Doktorat, Universität Hannover - Institut für Informationssysteme,2004.

In the context of ELDIT I have developed and implemented a new approach to Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), focusing on providing linguists with new tools to author an innovative dictionary-based language learning system. The innovative way of content presentation in the ELDIT dictionary made it necessary to model the data down to the level of single words and word parts. The authring tools I developed help linguists in their extensive data collection and encoding process by rewriting and fully structuring originally semi-structured content. In addition the content is
enriched with information by using computational linguistic techniques. The new approach not only proved its efficiency but also showed additional advantages which allowed increasing considerably the innovativeness of the ELDIT system.

Here is the abstract in German, the abstract in English, and the thesis in PDF (2MB).

Research Interests:

• Computer assisted language learning
• Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems

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