The authors propose a semantic and smart assistance framework for handling linguistic knowledge, called LingFramework. It targets both expert novice users. aims to assist the user in understanding different aspects of domain ease process proposing lingware applications. LingFramework is based on multilingual ontology LingOnto. allows (1) representing data, processing functionalities features, (...

Visual relationship detection aims to reason over relationships among salient objects in images, which has drawn increasing attention the past few years. Inspired by human reasoning mechanisms, it is believed that external visual commonsense knowledge beneficial for of however rarely considered existing methods. In this paper, we propose a novel approach named Relational Visual-Linguistic Bidir...

The configuration of a surface inspection vision system as a complex task, requires mining associations among attributes due to the variability of the surface and the environment in real-time production process. The surface inspection task has to change to deal with different elements such as, wood, stainless steel or paper inspection and, in the case of stainless steel, with reflectance and th...

Over the last few decades, language identification systems based on different kinds of linguistic knowledge had been studied by many researchers. Most of systems utilize one kind of linguistic knowledge only, i.e. phonotactic, phonetic repertoire, or prosody. It is possible to get the improvement by combining several linguistic knowledge. However, the combination of two systems based on differe...

In this paper the underlying knowledge model and architecture of IPETER (Intelligent Personalised English Tutoring EnviRonment) are presented. This system has been designed for the on-line distance learning of English where too many students restrict the teacher’s possibilities to provide individualised guidance. I-PETER is made up of four domain models that represent linguistic and didactic kn...

Previous research on children’s categorizations has suggested that children use perceptual and conceptual knowledge to generalize object names. Especially, the relation between ontological categories and linguistic categories appears to be a critical cue to learning of object categories. However, its underlying mechanism remains unclear. proposes a connectionist model that can acquire ontologic...

ogist, and ethnobiologist. She is cofounder and President of Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity. Terralingua is an international NGO based in Washington, DC, devoted to supporting the world’s linguistic diversity and to exploring the links between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity, through research, information, education, and policy. She is editor of...