This paper surveys and evaluates some techniques for eliciting requirements of computer-based systems, paying particular attention to how they deal with social issues. The methods surveyed include introspection, interviews, questionnaires, and protocol, conversation, interaction, and discourse analyses. Although they are relatively untried in Requirements Engineering, we believe there is much p...

My emphasis in this paper is on floor control in multiparty discourse: the approach is psycholinguistic. This perspective includes turn management, turn exchange and coordination; how to recognize the dominant speaker even when he or she is not speaking, and a theory of all this. The data to be examined comprise a multimodal depiction of a 5-party meeting (a US Air Force war gaming session) and...

We present a robust and efficient parallelizable multilingual UIMA-based platform for automatically annotating textual inputs with different layers of linguistic description, ranging from surface level phenomena all the way down to deep discourse-level information. In particular, given an input text, the pipeline extracts: sentences and tokens; entity mentions; syntactic information; opinionate...

There are three major parts of the “Spontaneous Speech: Corpus and Processing Technology” project; (1) compilation of large spontaneous speech corpus, (2) establishment of spoken language engineering based on the corpus, and (3) developing a prototype of a spoken language summarization system. This paper describes how we help to develop this large corpus, i.e., (1), using technology developed a...

In the context of information system engineering, we propose a four-layer metamodeling architecture with a comprehensive set of operations on metamodels. Our architecture enables modelers to use a three-step modeling process: first, giving an informal description of the universe of the discourse (in terms of modeling paradigms); then, defining a corresponding UML dialect (in terms of metamodels...

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Väliverronen, Hellsten / THE ROLE OF METAPHORS In public discourse on the environment, scientific knowledge is often mediated by metaphors. In this article, the authors are concerned with the role of metaphors in the communication of biodiversity loss. More specifically, their examination focuses on such popular metaphors as “the library of life,” “biotic holocaust,” and “...

It is sometimes claimed (cf. that discourse has a tree structure which reeects the semantic structure of discourse. In this paper, I argue that this claim is problematic in cases of discourse multiple dependencies i.e. cases where one discourse segment is semantically related to two discourse segments. I develop a discourse framework which is based on Scha/Polanyi 1988] but integrates ideas fro...

Not much is known about the linguistic resources other than discourse connectors for signalling coherence relations. We present here non discourse connector resources for marking coherence relations, namely “discourse verbs” and “discourse prepositions”. “Discourse verbs” are verbs such as precede or cause which take as arguments eventualities or facts. They enter into competition with discours...

The motivation behind the concept of Knowledge Federation resonates closely with the orientation of the Hypermedia Discourse project and the Knowledge Cartography focus of a forthcoming book. We are concerned with the co-evolution of new tools and practices for “bringing together” ideas, sharing the KF orientation that meaning is always contextualised, that truth is often contested, and that so...