Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) recently set the trend towards the study of intersubjective meaning-making (Suthers, 2006). This research addresses the processes of meaning-making through paths established from the Collaboration Interaction Model (CIM) (Wee & Looi, 2007), a proposed model used to analyse chat transcripts. Meaning-making paths, as defined by the CIM consist of p...

Because collaborative learning takes place through processes of shared meaning-making, CSCL must be concerned with the nature of meaning and social meaning-making practices. Philosophic analysis suggests that meanings are necessarily shared; they persist in linguistic and physical artifacts in our culture and situation. However, these meanings must be interpreted by individuals. There is a dyna...

OBJECTIVE An increasing number of older people in Western countries are living with incurable cancer, receiving palliative care from specialized healthcare contexts. The aim of our article was to understand how they experience the existential meaning-making function in daily living from a life-span perspective. METHOD Some 21 participants (12 men and 9 women), aged 70-88, were interviewed in ...

We describe in this article an annotation scheme for deep dependency syntax, built from the surface annotation scheme of the Sequoia corpus, abstracting away from it and expressing the grammatical relations between content words. When these grammatical relations take part into verbal diatheses, we consider the diatheses as resulting from redistributions from the canonical diathesis, which we re...

This chapter presents an integrative approach to social cognitive and moral development by showing how descriptive (social) and prescriptive (moral) reasoning are interconnected in socio-moral meaning making. It is argued that socio-moral meaning making is based on processes of perspective differentiation and coordination through which persons come to understand descriptive and prescriptive asp...

We describe our contribution to the SemEval task on Frame-Semantic Structure Extraction. Unlike most previous systems described in literature, ours is based on dependency syntax. We also describe a fully automatic method to add words to the FrameNet lexical database, which gives an improvement in the recall of frame detection.

One of important issues in the field of implication and aggression is        "منصوب به نزع خافض". It is an idiom related to  مفعول به "”. By referring to its definition, a syntactic-semantic analysis will be done in this paper. It tries to indicate what is the relationship between word and meaning and to what extent Arabic syntax focu...