Introduction Metaphor is more than understanding and expressing an abstract concept in terms of a concrete one. Pre-linguistically, it the conceptual creativity that resides entities yet to be expressed. Linguistically, invention expands boundaries words. Contextually, preservation or generation polysemy brings about confrontation meanings. As such, metaphor also universal creative mechanism se...

Abstract Video games are the digital entertainment resource most in demand by young people, which has led an increasing number of education experts to study their possible benefits. In particular, this research, we set out identify potential ‘Papers, Please’ promote moral learning. Thus, have tried those objectives that go beyond success video game and could favor For purpose, investigated what...

of the original article: Beyond modularity attempts a synthesis of Fodor’s anticonstructivist nativism and Piaget’s antinativist constructivism. Contra Fodor, I argue that: (1) the study of cognitive development is essential to cognitive science, (2) the module/central processing dichotomy is too rigid, and (3) the mind does not begin with prespecified modules; rather, development involves a gr...

Standardized medical terminologies are often used for the registration of patient data. In several situations there is a need to align these terminologies to other terminologies. Even when the terminologies cover the same domain, this is often a non-trivial task. The task is even more complicated when the terminology does not contain much structure. In this paper we describe the initial results...

The overwhelming amount of information stored in various data repositories including those available over the web emphasizes the relevance of knowledge integration methodologies and techniques to facilitate data sharing. The need for such integration has been already perceived for several years, but telecommunications and networking are quickly and dramatically changing the scenario. We impleme...

Translated texts, in any language, have unique characteristics that set them apart from texts originally written in the same language. Translation Studies is a research field that focuses on investigating these characteristics. Until recently, research in machine translation (MT) has been entirely divorced from translation studies. The main goal of this tutorial is to introduce some of the find...

1 Overview and Motivations We believe that an automated support tool for Domain Engineering (DE) should behave as an Intelligent Knowledge Management Environment (IKME) and not as an expert system. It should only help the analyst in the discovery and in the explicitation of contradictions, redundancies and hidden properties detected in the Domain Knowledge Base (DKB) under development and/or an...

My first aim in adopting a corpus-based approach to the study of Chinese idioms in translational and non-translational texts is to investigate the use of four-character expressions as they are such a prominent phraseological and stylistic feature in Mandarin Chinese throughout the ages. This study grows out of my Ph.D. research project at Imperial College which has been defined so far as a corp...

The aim of a corpus-based approach to the study of Chinese idioms in translational and non-translational texts is to testify the preliminary hypothesis regarding the remarkable use of typical four-character expressions, especially idioms and collocations in Chinese translational texts, which has been conceived and developed largely from my Ph.D. dissertation on a corpus-based study of four-char...