Web standards developed mainly by W3C and OASIS shape the general IT domain and its applications. Due to the scale of web applications, the web standards have matured to deal with typical situations of finding the right node on the network, reconfiguring the routing for messaging, using common standards for representing graphical information and many others. Industrial manufacturing can benefit...

It is increasingly apparent that social media is a unique and important resource to explore spontaneous relations and discourses among individuals. Data analysis in social media, however, is difficult because approaches have not been streamlined. In this paper, we move from the discussion of present perspectives in the analysis of social media to then discuss the methodological strategies avail...

This short paper is describing a demonstrator that is complementing the paper “Towards Cross-Media Feature Extraction” in these proceedings. The demo is exemplifying the use of textual resources, out of which semantic information can be extracted, for supporting the semantic annotation and indexing of associated video material in the soccer domain. Entities and events extracted from textual dat...

In his famous discussion of the source of our duties concerning anirrals, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant approvingly mentions a series of engravings ( "The Four Stages of Cruelty") by the English artist William Hogarth as exemplifying one of his central contentions. [2] The approach to our duties regarding anirrals advocated by Kant holds that avoiding cruelty is the most fUndamental duty...

Abstract Past research suggests that most culture change efforts proceed with limited attention to the pluralistic nature of contemporary organizations. We argue that the relationship between organization subcultures and the implementation of new HR strategies into HR practice has not been adequately explored because of the lack of a comprehensive framework for de®ning and integrating culture c...

This paper analyses the use of LOM Application Profiles for learning object repository interoperability. Based on an exemplifying use case the paper presents a case study, which aims at developing a LOM Application Profile to realized Smart Spaces for Learning. Finally, a schema is designed which selects the necessary LOM elements and makes a LOM-conformant extension to represent usage conditio...

This paperoutlines a bottom-up researchapproach to studying lexical representation, emphasizing the development of infant phonological perception as a source of data that can illuminate the nature of phonological representations. It is proposed that neural network formalisms can provide a useful framework for thinking about these issues. We identify a key set of empirical results, understanding...

This paper proposes a model for ontological representation supporting task-oriented dialog. The adoption of our ontology representation allows to map an interactive Question Answering (iQA) task into a knowledge based process. It supports dialog control, speech act recognition, planning and natural language generation through a unified knowledge model. A platform for developing iQA systems in s...

We present a connectionist model of event knowledge that is trained on examples of sequences of activities that are not explicitly labeled as events. The model learns co-occurrence patterns among the components of activities as they occur in the moment (entities, actions, and contexts), and also learns to predict sequential patterns of activities. In so doing, the model displays behaviors that ...

In this paper, we introduce the theory of trait Emotional Intelligence (‘trait EI’) as a personality theory that could assist in exemplifying the gamers’ profile and contribute to the design of player-center game experiences. Data from two studies (a game-specific and a game-general one) led to a number of playercentered playability principles that could inform the design of adaptable games and...