The need to make the contents of the Semantic Web accessible to end-users becomes increasingly pressing as the amount of information stored in ontology-based knowledge bases steadily increases. Natural language interfaces (NLIs) provide a familiar and convenient means of query access to Semantic Web data for casual end-users. While several studies have shown that NLIs can achieve high retrieval...

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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India (NREGA) has generated a lot of interest among the researchers to measure its impact on labor market outcomes. A few papers in this literature use the differences-in-differences (DID) strategy exploiting the phase wise implementation of the program across districts in India to identify its impact on private sector casual wages. This identifica...

Open-air heritage sites have started making use of different types of tourist guides in order to attract a larger number of visitors as well as educate them in a more challenging manner. However, most of them are still using static audiovisual guides which usually require input from visitors to operate. On the contrary, location-based heritage guides offer a number of advantages over traditiona...

Young children spend a large portion of their time pretending about non-real situations. Why? We answer this question by using the framework of Bayesian causal models to argue that pretending and counterfactual reasoning engage the same component cognitive abilities: disengaging with current reality, making inferences about an alternative representation of reality, and keeping this representati...

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are popular worldwide. Especially in Korea, there were about 19 million gamers in 2006. Despite this wide popularity, some players have become seriously addicted to online games, causing a serious social problem. However, studies and/or trials to address game addiction problems have rarely been performed. In this paper, we investigate the relationships...