In this paper, we propose a framework for conceptual development through the lens of program induction. We implement this framework to model the acquisition of kinship term concepts, resulting in the first formal learning model for kinship acquisition. We demonstrate that our model can learn any kinship system consistent with its learning data using cross-linguistic data from English, Pukapuka ...

A study on psychosocial care among Karo (patrilineal kinship) and Minangkabau (matrilineal kinship) households who lived in Jakarta, Indonesia was aimed at investigating psychosocial care practices of mothers and the relation of psychosocial care to the nutritional status of children aged 6-36 months as indicated by Weight-for-Age (WFA), Weight-for-Height (WFH), and Height-for-Age (HFA) Z-score...

The kin term product calculations used by culture-bearers to compute kin relationships from kin terms without reference to genealogy are the basis for the structure of a kinship terminology and its underlying generative logic. The details of that logic account for differences in the structural forms for kinship terminologies. The structural form of the Polynesian kinship terminologies, like tha...

Kinship plays a fundamental role in human communities as a basic principle for organizing individuals into social groups. Representing kinship relationships in a formal and precise way is then a crucial task when modelling many knowledge domains, and it may constitute a relevant benchmark for the reasoning layer of the Semantic Web. In this paper we face the problem of representing some basic a...