Language is a hallmark of our species and understanding linguistic diversity is an area of major interest. Genetic factors influencing the cultural transmission of language provide a powerful and elegant explanation for aspects of the present day linguistic diversity and a window into the emergence and evolution of language. In particular, it has recently been proposed that linguistic tone-the ...

This paper proposes lexical annotation as an effective method to solve the ambiguity problems that affect ontology matchers. Lexical annotation associates to each ontology element a set of meanings belonging to a semantic resource. Performing lexical annotation on the ontologies involved in the matching process allows to detect false positive mappings and to enrich matching results by adding ne...

Teachers need to understand the economic and global contexts that underpin curriculum because they impact on interpretation, definition perception of their role. Grundy (1994) maintains there is a “… taken for granted view as something given to, or provided for, students” (p.27). This fails acknowledge crucial, dynamic role teachers students bring active construction knowledge. be prepared ideo...