The recent emergence of simulation-based accounts of language understanding (e.g. Barsalou et al. To appear; Zwaan 2004) has provided a promising perspective on the relationship between language and conceptual structure in facilitating linguistically-mediated meaning construction. However, these accounts have tended to largely equate semantic structure—semantic representation associated with la...

We previously proposed a summarization system, GREEN, for Japanese newspaper editorials. However, GREEN is not suitable for summarizing ordinal newspaper articles which are different from newspaper editorials. To participate in subtasks A-1 and A-2 of TSC (text Summarization Challenge) in NTCIR-2, we developed a new summarization system from scratch which copes with both ordinal articles and ed...

A mechanism of perceptual analysis by which infants derive meaning from perceptual activity is described. Infants use this mechanism to redescribe perceptual information into image-schematic format. Image-schemas create conceptual structure from the spatial structure of objects and their movements, resulting in notions such as animacy, inanimacy, agency, and containment. These earliest meanings...

A content analysis of newspaper editorials about the trial of the four officers accused of beating Rodney King investigated when people would become concerned with procedural propriety in the case. Consistent with research demonstrating that people’s moral convictions are important determinants of their perceptions of fairness and reactions to outcomes, results revealed that people were more cr...

Infocus has compiled a selection of editorials from the ethnic press published in the wake of the public debate over race and Pauline Hanson’s comments. Almost without exception, the editorials express serious concern with the resurgence of racism and call for more leadership from the Prime Minister on the issue. Community newspapers are a vital information service for ethnic communities and pr...

In this work, we propose a merged coil structure for wireless chip-to-chip communication technology. Using the proposed coil structure, the chip size can be reduced, and the transmitted power can be improved by approximately 5 dB compared to typical coil structure. To verify the feasibility of the coil, an electromagnetic simulation and a schematic simulation are performed. The coil was impleme...