Semantic wikis have been introduced for collaborative authoring of ontologies as well as for annotating wiki content with semantic meta data. In this paper, we introduce a different approach for a semantic wiki based on an ontology meta model customized especially for the deployment within a wiki. For optimal usability clientside technologies have been combined with a simple semantic query lang...

Semantic wikis have been introduced for collaborative authoring of ontologies as well as for annotating wiki content with semantic meta data. In this paper, we introduce a different approach for a semantic wiki based on an ontology meta model customized especially for the deployment within a wiki. For optimal usability clientside technologies have been combined with a simple semantic query lang...

First-year psychology students took multiple-choice examinations following each of 4 lecture courses and 3 laboratory research methods courses. One lecture course was later retested. Students indicated state of memory awareness accompanying each answer: recollective experience (remember), "just know" (know), feeling of familiarity (familiarity), or guess. On the lecture courses, higher performi...

What would be a good method to provide a large collection of semantically annotated texts with formal, deep semantics rather than shallow? We argue that a bootstrapping approach comprising state-of-the-art NLP tools for parsing and semantic interpretation, in combination with a wiki-like interface for collaborative annotation of experts, and a game with a purpose for crowdsourcing, are the star...

What would be a good method to provide a large collection of semantically annotated texts with formal, deep semantics rather than shallow? In this talk I will argue that (i) a bootstrapping approach comprising state-of-the-art NLP tools for semantic parsing, in combination with (ii) a wiki-like interface for collaborative annotation of experts, and (iii) a game with a purpose for crowdsourcing,...

To achieve widespread acceptance, speech Understanding technology needs to be domain independent. Deep understanding, however, appears to require knowledge that is tiomain specific. Speech understanding technology, therefore, must be partitioned into domain-independent and domainspecific components. Development of domain-independent components could be promoted by creation of semantically annot...

This paper is a reflexion on the computability of natural language semantics. It does not contain a new model or new results in the formal semantics of natural language: it is rather a computational analysis of the logical models and algorithms currently used in natural language semantics, defined as the mapping of a statement to logical formulas — formulas, because a statement can be ambiguous...

Pointing out relevant information to a user is one application of focus and context techniques in information visualization. We present a method for doing this which uses selective blur to direct the user’s attention. This method is based on the depth of field effect used in photography and cinematography, and is therefore both familiar to users and perceptually effective. Because this method b...

In spite of its significance for everyday and philosophical discourse, the explanatory connective ‘because’ has not received much treatment in the philosophy of logic. The present paper develops a logic for ‘because’ based on systematic connections between ‘because’ and the truthfunctional connectives.

This study investigates the processing of quantifiers in a patient (AM) with semantic dementia. Quantifiers are verbal expressions such as "many" or "a few", which refer semantically to quantity concepts although lexically they are like non-quantity words. Patient AM presented with preserved understanding of quantifier words and impaired understanding of non-quantifier words of the same frequen...