Constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Joint Chinese-German Workshop on Cognitive Systems held in Shanghai, March 2005. This book includes sections on multi modal human-computer interfaces, neuropsychology and neurocomputing, and Chinese-German natural language processing and psycholinguistics.

Cognitive Systems.- Natural Language Dialog with a Tutor System for Mathematical Proofs.- On the Effectiveness of Visualizations in a Theory of Computing Course.- Some Cognitive Aspects of a Turing Test for Children.- Challenges in Search and Usage of Multi-media Learning Objects.- An Intelligent Platform for Information Retrieval.- P-Terse: A Peer-to-Peer Based Text Retrieval and Search System.- Identifying Semantic Relations Between Named Entities from Chinese Texts.- Research on English-Chinese Bi-directional Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Analyzing Image Texture from Blobs Perspective.- Access to Content.- Content-Based Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval.- Shape Recognition with Coarse-to-Fine Point Correspondence Under Image Deformations.- Towards Efficient Ranked Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer Networks.

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