This article presents a conceptual framework for the identification and classification of contextual elements included in groupware applications. Contextual elements store information that helps group members to characterize and to understand the interaction and its associate information. The conceptual framework can be used not only to guide the development of new groupware applications but al...

This article examines the history of the conceptualization of dissociative, conversion, and somatoform syndromes in relation to one another, chronicles efforts to classify these and other phenomenologically-related psychopathology in the American diagnostic system for mental disorders, and traces the subsequent divergence in opinions of dissenting sectors on classification of these disorders. T...

This paper explores the interaction between conceptual structure and morpho-syntax. In particular, we show that ontology-based conceptual classification can be used to predict internal relations in compounds. We propose an ontology-based approach to predict the semantic relation between the two component words in Mandarin VV compounds. A Mandarin VV compound is classified according to the event...

We specify a model for the conceptual interpretation of positive gradable adjectives. Building on a classification-based terminological reasoning approach we define comparison classes and class norms and specify how a degree is related to its corresponding class norm.

We specify a model for the conceptual interpretation of positive gradable adjectives. Building on a classification-based terminological reasoning approach we define comparison classes and class norms and specify how a degree is related to its corresponding class norm.