Extracting out of context

Thematic Annotation: extracting concepts out of documents

Semantic document annotation may be useful for many tasks. In particular, in the framework of the MDM project, topical annotation – i.e. the annotation of document segments with tags identifying the topics discussed in the segments – is used to enhance the retrieval of multimodal meeting records. Indeed, with such an annotation, meeting retrieval can integrate topics in the search criteria offe...

Extracting Formal Concepts out of Relational Data

Relational datasets, i.e., datasets in which individuals are described both by their own features and by their relations to other individuals, arise from various sources such as databases, both relational and object-oriented, or software models, e.g., UML class diagrams. When processing such complex datasets, it is of prime importance for an analysis tool to hold as much as possible to the init...

Out of Context

Context models and out-of-context objects

Article history: Available online 2 January 2012

Jumping out of context - Jumping out of tone

The study presented here investigates how different degrees of conceptual integration, as predicted by direct and indirect reported speech, effect speakers’ prosodic behaviour in interaction. It makes a threeway distinction between authentic direct, false direct and indirect reported speech and predicts that greater conceptual distance, predicted by authentic direct reported speech, will lead t...