The central thesis of this paper is that the definition of social phenomena is culturally determined, and, therefore, the explanation of health and illness is a function of culture. As a result, this has significant implications for health-seeking behaviour. The study, carried out in a Yoruba community, obtained ethnographic data through in-depth interview and nonparticipatory observation metho...

With an ever increasing amount of news being published every day, being able to effectively search these vast amounts of information is of primary interest to many Web ventures. As word-based approaches have their limits in that they ignore a lot of the information in texts, we present Destiny, a linguistic approach where news item sentences are represented as a graph featuring disambiguated wo...