Navigation in the environment, getting from one place to another, is of most fundamental and vital skills animal kingdom, for humans, too. To navigate successfully, an needs create internal “cognitive map” outside environment. This performed by a specific system brain, containing several brain regions various cell types, each with its unique role navigation. In this article, I will outline some...

We propose an ontology-based framework for linguistic annotation of written texts. We argue that linguistic annotation can be actually considered a special case of semantic annotation with regard to an ontology such as pursued within the context of the Semantic Web. Furthermore, we present CREAM, a semantic annotation framework, as well as its concrete implementation OntoMat and show how they c...

The recent hot debate on "mobile sharing economy" has been an emergence in a dynamic ownership economy, which attracts lots of attentions in the news media. The concept and practice of resource sharing has been fast becoming a mainstream phenomenon across the world. People share assets to their friends via Internet or smartphones. Meanwhile, researchers are now beginning to weigh in with deeper...

Several efforts have been done towards the development of platforms that allow the translation of specific sign languages to the correspondent spoken language (and vice-versa). In this (demo) paper, we describe a freely available system that translates, in real time, European Portuguese (text) into Portuguese Sign Language (LGP), by using an avatar. We focus in how some linguistic elements are ...