Huge multilingual news articles are reported and disseminated on the Internet. How to extract the key information and save the reading time is a crucial issue. This paper proposes architecture of multilingual news summarizer, including monolingual and multilingual clustering, similarity measure among meaningful units, and presentation of summarization results. Translation among news stories, id...

The model of enculturation I propose operates with a claim that individuals are intrinsically idiosyncratic. Support for individual idiosyncrasy begins at the level of neurons and goes on to encompass inter-individual phenomena. I draw on cognitive and social theory to support my position. In particular I consider the work of neurologist Gerald Edelman (2004) and his “theory of neuronal group s...