Search results for "Semantics"
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A social humanoid robot as a playfellow for vocabulary enhancement
2018
We introduce a system that exploits a Pepper humanoid robot acting as a playfellow in a word-play game. The robot can play a portmanteau game by directly interacting with children, and it exploits a conversation engine, a portmanteau creation engine, and a definition engine. The humanoid can play the role of either an answerer or a generator of new words.
Conceptual graph operations for formal visual reasoning in the medical domain
2014
International audience; Objective - Conceptual graphs (CGs) are used to represent clinical guidelines because they support visual reasoning with a logical background, making them a potentially valuable representation for guidelines.Materials and methods - Conceptual graph formalism has an essential and basic component: a formal vocabulary that drives all of the other mechanisms, notably specialization and projection. The graph's theoretical operations, such as projection, rules, derivation, constraints, probabilities and uncertainty, support diagrammatic reasoning.Results - A conceptual graph's graphical user interface includes a multilingual vocabulary management, some query and decision-m…
Musical structure modulates semantic priming in vocal music.
2004
It has been shown that harmonic structure may influence the processing of phonemes whatever the extent of participants' musical expertise [Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin, B., D'Adamo, D. A.,Madurell, F. (2001). The effect of harmonic context on phoneme monitoring in vocal music. Cognition, 81, B11-B20]. The present study goes a step further by investigating how musical harmony may potentially interfere with the processing of words in vocal music. Eight-chord sung sentences were presented, their last word being either semantically related (La girafe a un tres grand cou, The giraffe has a very long neck) or unrelated to the previous linguistic context (La girafe a un tres grand pied, The gi…
Semantic to intelligent web era
2013
International audience; The Web has known a very fast evolution: going from the Web 1.0, known as Web of Documents where users are merely consumers of static information, to the more dynamic Web 2.0, known as social or collaborative Web where users produce and consume information simultaneously, and entering the more sophisticated Web 3.0, known as the Semantic Web by giving information a well-defined meaning so that it becomes more easily accessible by human users and automated processes. Fostering service intelligence and atomicity (the ability of autonomous services to interact automatically), remains one of the most upcoming challenges of the Semantic Web. This promotes the dawn of a ne…
Pragmatic a priori knowledge : a pragmatic approach to the nature and object of what can be known independently of experience
2011
Zum Zusammenspiel von Textsorten-und Kulturspezifika in der Übersetzung von Weinbesprechungen
2017
International audience; FragestellungWeinbesprechungen stellen für Weinliebhaber – aber auch für Winzer und Weinhändler – eine wichtige Informationsquelle dar, um Wein zu kaufen bzw. zu bewerben (Lehrer 1975, Suárez-Toste 2007, Wislocka Breit 2014, Gautier/Lavric 2015). Vor dem Hintergrund einer Globalisierung des Weinhandels werden diese Texte immer öfter übersetzt, was zur folgenden Frage führt: Wie wird im Übersetzungsprozess mit der Textsorten- und Kulturspezifik dieser Textsorte umgegangen?-Auf Textsortenebene weisen Weinbesprechungen sowohl übereinzelsprachliche, als auch sprachspezifische Züge auf: Sie reihen sich somit in bestimmte Diskurstraditionen (s. unten) ein, die sich in Ausg…
Emergence et affirmation des descripteurs mineral(isch)/Mineralität en allemand : un cas de néologie sémantique dans le discours œnologique
2013
International audience; La communication vise à interroger la notion de ‘néologisme de sens’ en discours spécialisé en poursuivant deux objectifs :(i) le premier, de nature méthodologique et théorique, concerne la pertinence même de la notion au niveau terminologique : à partir de quand et jusqu’à quand considérer qu’un néologisme de sens est/reste un néologisme de sens, en particulier en regard des processus de terminologisation à l’œuvre dans le discours d’un domaine ;(ii) le second, ancré au niveau de la pratique, vise à discuter les problèmes de saisie et de description qui se posent au linguiste terminologue face à de telles unités.Les éléments de réponse que l’étude présentée entend a…
Did the three little pigs frighten the wolf? How deaf readers use lexical and syntactic cues to comprehend sentences
2020
Abstract Background The ways in which students with deafness process syntactic and semantic cues while reading sentences are unclear. While some studies have supported the preference for semantic cues, others have not. Aim To examine differences in the processing of syntactic versus semantic cues during sentence reading among students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). Method Twenty DHH students (mean age = 12.48 years) and 20 chronologically age-matched students with typical hearing (TH) were asked to read sentences written in Spanish with different grammatical structures and to choose the picture that best matched the sentences’ meaning while their eye movements were being registered.…
Using Semantics to Manage 3D Scenes in Web Platforms
2005
Computer graphics has widely spread out into various computer applications. After the early wire-frame computer generated images of the 60s, spatial representation of objects improved in the 70s with Boundary Representation (B-Rep) modeling, Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) objects, and free-form surfaces. Realistic rendering in the 90s, taking into account sophisticated dynamic interactions (between objects or between objects and human actors, physical interactions with light, etc.) now make 3D-scenes much better than simple 3D representations of the real world. Indeed, they are a way to conceive products (industrial products, art products, etc.) and to modify them over time, either inter…
A Social-Empowered Platform for Gathering Semantic Information
2013
Social Networks constitute the key ingredient for the huge success of the so called Social Web or Web 2.0. In social networks, a user has the possibility to interact with other users without the need of meeting them. The value of social applications benefit from the network effect, which states that the value of a service to a user arises from the number of people using the service. However, the associated semantics for this kind of applications, delivered through tagging, is generally scarce, thus narrowing the range of permissible operations for exploiting these data. In this paper, we present a semantic-based social platform that incorporates the benefits of semantic Web technologies int…