With the help of the simple and world-wide accepted technique of tagging, users can help to collaboratively provide metadata over previously uncharted collections of multimedia documents. However, the semantics of tags are rather limited and not always as helpful in disclosing a dataset as a proper ontology can be. In this paper we introduce the Relco framework that applies syntactic, semantic ...

The 1990s were an intense period for the construction of the symbols of Croatian identity. One such project – the story of the Croatian provenance of the necktie authored by a non-profit institution named Academia Cravatica – is interesting analytically not only because they arranged some more or less spectacular cultural happenings, but because of their skilful handling of the iconic postmoder...

PictNet is an online pictogram communication system designed for children from any country that accomplishes equitable communication by reflecting each user’s cultural background with multilingual support. There were issues with search accuracy and the consistency of manageability of the PictNet pictogram repository. Online pictogram surveys and experimental pictogram-creation activities for ch...

     This project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in English as a foreign language by Iranian speakers. Results of translation and picture judgment task show although L2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in English, they were constrained by ...

The cognitive anthropological method of deriving cultural models from ethnographic discourse analysis is illustrated in relation to case studies yielding nativistic insights regarding American Indian substance dependency and recovery. Discussion focuses on the broader applicability and local community relevance of incorporating cultural models directly into the design and implementation of prev...

Practices in communities can be supported through a wide use of standard multimedia and web technologies. Lately, several research domains, especially cultural heritage management, have discovered the power of collaboration with amateurs in multimedia documentation work. Amateurs often carry knowledge they would be willing to contribute with small effort. Thus, there is a need for intuitive mul...

Since 1994, the University of Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center proposed an instrument to measure neuropathies not yet adapted to use in Brazil. Then, this study aimed to adapt cross-culturally the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) into Brazilian Portuguese, verifying its reliability. Thirty diabetic patients were initially evaluated with the adapted version after com...

This position paper presents an approach to computational narrative based in cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics accounts of conceptual blending, metaphor, and narrative, multimedia semantics, human-centered interface design, and digital media art practice. In particular, as a case study, we describe the Living Liberia Fabric, an AI-based interactive narrative system developed in affilia...