This paper argues that IS theories should not ignore or background the relationship between individuals and technologies in explaining concepts such as adoption, innovation, diffusion, and practice. The relationships that individuals have with technologies should, arguably, be a core interest of IS because of the centrality of people and IT to the discipline. The neglect of individual relations...

If the classical inference relation is considered, AC is clearly not deductively valid. Moreover, adding AC to Classical Logic (CL) as an extra inference rule would result in the trivial logic. This is called the /irrelevance problem/ towards abduction. In order to provide a nice formal account of abduction processes, this problem has to be faced. In this lunch talk, I will present several adap...

In this research, I attempt to extract information from a computer-transcribed conversation. Leveraging the SDK of a sophisticated, commercial speech recognition system, I have created a classifier that weights words based on the output confidence factor from the recognition engine, and maximizes the probability of the word frequency using both 0th and first order Markov models. I demonstrate t...

A number of computer science problems, including heterogeneous database integration, natural language processing, document intelligent retrieval would benefit from the capability to model the absolute meaning of things, independently of any particular use of these things. Such models, termed ontologies, have been heavily investigated over the last ten years, with various purposes and within var...

Hearers get at the intended meaning of uncooperative utterances (i.e. utterances that conflict with the prescriptions laid down by the Gricean maxims) by pragmatically deriving sentences that reconcile these utterances with the maxims. Such pragmatic derivations are made according to pragmatic rules called implicatures. As they are pragmatic in nature, the conclusions drawn by applying implicat...

The task of explication consists in transforming a given more or less inexact concept into an exact one or, rather, in replacing the first by the second. We call the given concept (or the term used for it) the explicandum, and the exact concept proposed to take the place of the first (or the term proposed for it) the explicatum. The explicandum may belong to everyday language or to a previous s...