A Web Application must have a precise semantics. In currently Web Engineering environments, this can be achieved either by specifying a Web Conceptual Schema, or by using a Semantic Web-language where the Web Application meaning is properly captured. In any case, the set of relevant conceptual primitives has to be properly represented. In this paper both approaches are studied as two different ...

When children acquire a first language, they build on what they know--conceptual information that discriminates and helps create categories for the objects, relations and events they experience. This provides the starting point for language from the age of 12 months on. So children first set up conceptual representations, then add linguistic representations for talking about experience. Do they...

The NLP team of LIRMM currently works on lexical disambiguation and thematic text analysis [Lafourcade, 2001]. We built a system, with automated learning capabilities, based on conceptual vectors for meaning representation. Vectors are supposed to encode ideas associated to words or expressions. In the framework of knowledge and lexical meaning representation, we devise some conceptual vectors ...

This paper describes an approach that begins with asynchronously capturing individual conceptual models into separate knowledge-based systems using a technique known as Ripple-Down Rules. The rules are combined and used by Formal Concept Analysis to develop the group’s conceptual model thereby revealing common ground and differences between the stakeholders. As group process is offered which al...

The NLP team of LIRMM currently works on thematic and lexical disambiguation text analysis [Lafourcade, 2001]. We built a system, with automated learning capabilities, based on conceptual vectors for meaning representation. Vectors are supposed to encode ideas associated to words or expressions. In the framework of Acception Based Lexical Database (instantiated through the Papillon project), we...

A conceptual model of the strategies and techniques of family therapy is presented. Attention is drawn to the complex relationships between the family therapist's manner of relating, the strategies and techniques which he or she employs, the presenting problem or problems, the particular characteristics of the family, and the development phase of the family therapy process.

In cognitive studies on metaphor, the elements and relations responsible for the linguistic instantiations of conceptual metaphors are investigated on the conceptual level of crossdomain mappings. Though the cognitive approach devises strategies to model the inference patterns necessary to understand metaphorical constructions, it has not devised machinery to model the links between metaphorica...

We propose a machine learning framework for an adaptive and self-improving tutoring system that performs efficient and effective teaching strategies, and learns these strategies efficiently while interacting on-line with students belonging to specific learning categories. Categories that may be learned via a conceptual clustering algorithm serves as background knowledge for the reinforcement le...