This paper argues that in order to allow for the representation, comparison and assessment of possibly controversial or uncertain information on the web, the semantic web effort requires capabilities for the social reasoning about web ontologies and other information acquired from multiple heterogeneous sources. As an approach to this, we propose formal means for the representation of possibly ...

This article is concerned with determining the constraints on the selection of appropriate intonation in speech generation in human-machine information seeking dialogues. The two pillars of our system|a state-of-the-art computational dialogue model and a state-of-the-art NL generator|are presented. Based on this, we determine the kinds of linguistic and pragmatic knowledge needed to suuciently ...

This article is concerned with determining the constraints on the selection of appropriate intonation in speech generation in humanmachine information seeking dialogues. The two pillars of our sys tem--a state-of-theart computational dialogue model and a state-of-the-art NL generator--are presented. Based on this, we determine the kinds of linguistic and pragmatic knowledge needed to sufficient...

In general, Policy-based approaches play an important role in the management of web services, for instance, in the choice of semantic web service and quality of services (QoS) in particular. The present research work illustrates a procedure for the web service selection among functionality similar web services based on WS-Policy semantic matching. In this study, the procedure of WS-Policy publi...

The traditional notion of word meaning used in natural language processing is literal or lexical meaning as used in dictionaries and lexicons. This relatively objective notion of lexical meaning is different from more subjective notions of emotive or affective meaning. Our aim is to come to grips with subjective aspects of meaning expressed in written texts, such as the attitudes or value expre...

Obese individuals are blamed for their excess weight based on causal attribution to the individual. It is unclear whether obese individuals of different age groups and gender are faced with the same amount of stigmatization. This information is important in order to identify groups of individuals at risk for higher stigmatization and discrimination. A telephone interview was conducted in a repr...

Attachment and caregiving are separate motivational systems that share the common evolutionary purpose of favoring child security. In the goal of studying the processes underlying the transmission of attachment styles, this study focused on the role of adult attachment styles in shaping preferences toward particular styles of caregiving. We hypothesized a correspondence between attachment and c...

The fragment of the dialectical worldview Ukrainians (represented in semantic opposition TOP / BOTTOM) was presented by using onomasiological approach to description derivatives. lexical and features one subfield – names measure degree, which are included field "Abstract categories", were analyzed. Structural-semantic units investigated on basis nominative concepts base words верх, гора ("top")...