The aim of the present paper is to analyze if taxonomic and thematic conceptual relations are processed primarily in the linguistic system, in the simulation system or in both. Because the verbal modality is the best way to access the linguistic system and the pictorial modality is the best way to access the simulation system (Barsalou, 1999), we studied these processes through verbal and picto...

The aim of the present paper is to analyze if taxonomic and thematic conceptual relations are processed primarily in the linguistic system, in the simulation system or in both. Because the verbal modality is the best way to access the linguistic system and the pictorial modality is the best way to access the simulation system (Barsalou, 1999), we studied these processes through verbal and picto...

Thematic analysis is important for a lot of applications dealing with texts, such as text summarisation or information extraction. But it can be done with a great precision only if it relies on structured knowledge, which is difficult to produce. In this paper, we propose using bootstrapping in order to solve this problem: a first thematic analysis based on a weakly structured source of knowled...

Childhood obesity is a major concern in today's society. Research suggests the inclusion of the views and understandings of a target group facilitates strategies that have better efficacy. The objective of this study was to explore the concepts and themes that make up children's understandings of the causes and consequences of obesity. Participants were selected from Reception (4-5 years old) a...

Context: Global Software Development (GSD) presents significant challenges to share and understand knowledge required for developing software. Organizations are expected to implement appropriate practices to address knowledgesharing challenges in GSD. With the growing literature on GSD and its widespread adoption, it is important to build a body of knowledge to support future research and effec...

Faced with the need for human comprehension of any large collection of objects, a time honored approach has been to cluster the objects into groups of closely related objects. Individual groups are then summarized in some convenient manner to provide a more manageable view of the data. Such methods have been applied to document collections with mixed results. If a hard clustering of the data in...

As agile is maturing and becoming more widely adopted, it is important that researchers are aware of the challenges faced by practitioners and organisations. We undertook a thematic analysis of 193 agile challenges collected at a series of agile conferences and events during 2013 and 2014. Participants were mainly practitioners and business representatives along with some academics. The challen...