negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching a joint agreement about differing needs or ideas. for successful negotiations, both parties should come to the negotiating table with having done some serious thinking about the barriers to and complexities of cross- cultural communications. there are four phases in negotiations: relationship building, inform...

This paper playfully appropriates the metaphor of delusional states to frame a discussion hyperreal documents present in Disney theme parks and resorts. A brief overview literature on delusion individuals transitions into collective formation positive illusions introduce concept play. The conceptual framework play culture, or ludics, is presented understand cultural production meaning, which fu...

We describe in this article an annotation scheme for deep dependency syntax, built from the surface annotation scheme of the Sequoia corpus, abstracting away from it and expressing the grammatical relations between content words. When these grammatical relations take part into verbal diatheses, we consider the diatheses as resulting from redistributions from the canonical diathesis, which we re...

This paper examines the standards consortium problem (i.e. lack democratic procedures) and the democratic rhetoric that surrounds it from a European perspective. The social shaping approach is used. The analysis addresses the organizational level (consortium procedures) and the actor network level (processes of meaning negotiation). The research method includes two in-depth case studies of cons...

We describe our contribution to the SemEval task on Frame-Semantic Structure Extraction. Unlike most previous systems described in literature, ours is based on dependency syntax. We also describe a fully automatic method to add words to the FrameNet lexical database, which gives an improvement in the recall of frame detection.

This paper explains the principles of dependency analysis by reduction and its correspondence to the notions of dependency and dependency tree. The explanation is illustrated by examples from Czech, a language with a relatively high degree of word-order freedom. The paper sums up the basic features of methods of dependency syntax. The method serves as a basis for the verification (and explanati...

Current technology enhances communication and forms of expression, enriching the setting of human interaction, the inter-subject space where experience is built and where comprehension and consensus around meaning are elaborated. All in all, this is the domain where the processes which intimately define the concept of culture truly take place, empowering incorporation into an association of pra...