Recent advances in the field of intelligent vehicles have shown the applicability and utility for driver assistance systems, or even letting a car drive autonomously on highways. Usually these approaches are on a rather quantitative level. This hampers their capability to cope situations of great complexity in which humans need a lot of knowledge to act safely, for instance in city traffic. A q...

Figure 1 shows the terms and ideas from a critical sentence (sentence 5) in the abstract. This research proposal described a randomized study comparing oral contraceptives versus the combination of leuprolide and norethindrone following surgery to remove endometriosis adhesions. The informative terms are highlighted in the sentence. The terms – efficacy, effective, operative, treatment and pelv...

Ontology is a new object of IA that recently came to maturity and a powerful conceptual tool of Knowledge Modeling. It provides a coherent base to build on, and a shared reference to align with, in the form of a consensual conceptual vocabulary, on which one can build descriptions and communication acts. This report presents the object that is called "an ontology" and a state of the art of engi...

The aim in the research described here is to construct a model for design processes for technical systems that should help to uncover the principles behind design phenomena and structure the relevant design knowledge. The approach taken in this research can be best described as trying to regard design as an (applied) exact science, rather than as a craft or an art (Alberts et al. 1991a). Up to ...

The main goal of this work is to describe a new model for a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system using a phonetic-phonological approach. This work proposes a statistical phonetic structure, applied at the phoneticphonological level, to improve the speech recognition performance in systems with phonetic-phonological modeling. It is showed that the general likelihood scores are i...

1 We discuss the use of heuristic search in a graph of cases and other domain knowledge to supply support for an argument. We contend that for legal argument, a gap exists between the vocabulary of constraints upon arguments and the indexing vocabulary for cases and other domain resource knowledge. We suggest best-first search of a graph of cases and other domain knowledge as a means to partial...

Little is known about language minority community college students’ depth of L2 academic vocabulary knowledge, including how it relates to their breadth of L2 academic vocabulary knowledge and the relationship to their L1 skills. This exploratory study was carried out with a sample of 10 language minority students enrolled in either advanced ESL language classes or introductory content courses ...

The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is popular for expressing controlled vocabularies for their use in Semantic Web applications. Using SKOS, concepts can be linked to other concepts and organized into hierarchies inside a single terminology system. Meanwhile, expressing mappings between concepts in different terminology systems is also possible with SKOS mapping properties. This po...

This action research aimed to evaluate the impact that explicit vocabulary instruction delivered through Schoology had on knowledge and reading comprehension of fifth graders at an urban elementary school in southeastern United States. A convergent mixed-method approach was applied. The scores learner experience survey accounted for quantitative data. Furthermore, qualitative data gathered from...