FLOYD MERRELL (b. 16 November 1937). Academic Status: Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Mail Address: Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University, West lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail: . Personal Office Tel: (765) 496-2265. Fax: (765) 496-1700. Educational Background: Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1972. Research Interests: (1) Spanish an...

This text presents initial considerations about the meaning potential of procedurality in digital media, from the perspective of the designer working in this medium. In simple terms, the procedural aspect of digital media refers to this medium’s fundamental ability to execute a series of rules in an autonomous fashion. Procedural authorship allows for unique strategies of representation and exp...

Hypertext theory makes use of the same set of terms that have been explored in decades of semiotic investigation, such as sign, text, communication, code, metaphor, paradigm, syntax, etc. Building on approaches that have succeeded in applying semiotic principles and methodology to computer science, such as computer semiotics, computational semiotics, and semiotic interface engineering, this dis...

In this paper we discuss the semiotic functions of the psychological borders that structure the flow of narrative processes. Each narration is always a contextual, situated and contingent process of sensemaking, made possible by the creation of borders, such as dynamic semiotic devices that are capable of connecting the past and the future, the inside and the outside, and the me with the non-me...

Music structure description, i.e. the task of representing the high-level organization of music pieces in a concise, generic and reproducible way, is currently a scientific challenge both algorithmically and conceptually. In this paper, we focus on semiotic structure, i.e. the description of similarities and internal relationships within a music piece, as a low-rate stream of arbitrary symbols ...

This paper describes a process of text normalization system for the Bangla language (exonym: Bengali) by identifying the semiotic classes from Bangla text corpus. After identifying the semiotic classes, a set of rules was written for tokenization and verbalization. This study is important for Text-ToSpeech (TTS) system and as well as for creating a language model used in speech recognition.

In philosophy, there is an as yet unresolved discussion on whether there are different kinds of kinds and what those kinds are. In particular, there is a distinction between indifferent kinds, which are unaffected by observation and representation, and interactive kinds, which respond to being studied in ways that alter the very kinds under study. This is in essence a discussion on ontologies a...

The objective of the Semiotic-based Ontology Evaluation Tool (S-OntoEval) is to evaluate and propose improvements to a given ontological model. The evaluation aims at assessing the quality of the ontology by drawing upon semiotic theory (Stamper et al., 2000), taking several metrics into consideration for assessing the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of ontology quality. We consider ...

The Semantic Web implies the comprehensive use of the main semiotic postulates on the Web. One of the most important facts about human understanding comes from the area of linguistics and semiotics. The semiotic techniques, such as syntagm and paradigm are explained through the examples in learning environment, in the context of logical understanding and knowledge representation on the Web.

This response to Kress agrees that it is vital to identify gains and losses afforded by changing media but questions his reliance on binaries and periodization. It suggests a return to James Gibson’s affordances; more precise analysis of semiotic objects; and sociohistoric theories that link semiotic artifacts, individual development, and social practice. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.