Our study takes place in an European Project LIBRARIES named BAMBI (Better Access to Manuscripts and Browsing of Image). This paper presents a method for multilingual access information. Our approach uses a semantic structure in order to index a document without taking account of its language. This semantic structure is a hierarchical organisation of semantic elements. Each element contains two...

A phenomenological approach was used to describe the lived experience of disability of a woman who sustained a head injury 21 years ago. Data were collected through 11 face-to-face interviews and 72 e-mail messages over the period of 11 weeks. An iterative, fluid process of questioning, information-giving, analysis, and verification was characteristic of the whole study, alternating between ana...

The immune self is one of the main organizing concepts in immunology. However, it is not quite clear what the immune self is and heated debates are taken place among immunologists concerning the usefulness and the meaning of this concept. In this paper, I argue that the problem of the immune self is analogous to the problem of finding the meanings of the sign in semiotics. Following this sugges...

Abstract Is conceptual engineering feasible? Answering that question requires a theory of semantic change, which is sometimes thought elusive. Fortunately, much known about change as it occurs in the wild. While usage chaotic and complex, changes word’s use can produce its meaning. There are several under-appreciated empirical constraints on how meanings stem from following observation: word fi...