A key challenge in the legal domain is the adaptation and representation of the legal knowledge expressed through texts, in order for legal practitioners and researchers to access this information easier and faster to help with compliance related issues. One way to approach this goal is in the form of a taxonomy of legal concepts. While this task usually requires a manual construction of terms ...

This study attempts to validate a safety performance (SP) measurement model in the cross-cultural setting of a developing country. In addition, it highlights the variations in investigating the relationship between safety climate (SC) factors and SP indicators. The data were collected from forty under-construction multi-storey building projects in Pakistan. Based on the results of exploratory f...

`Abstract: A new robust estimator based on the concept of uncertainty in the measurements is developed in this paper. The uncertainty in the measurements is modeled via deterministic upper and lower bounds on measurement errors, which take into account known meter accuracies. Inequality constraints are constructed to model the uncertainty in the measurements. A solution point satisfying most in...

This  study  investigated  the  effect  of  language  complexity  and  group  size  on  knowledge construction in two online debates. Knowledge construction was assessed using Gunawardena et al.’s Interaction Analysis Model (1997). Language complexity was determined by dividing the  number  of  unique  words  by  total  words.  It  refers  to  the  lexical  variation.  The  results showed  that...

A successful construction industry is essential to us all. Benefits from efficiently constructed buildings and infrastructures are well known and we all benefit from them. If we are prepared to challenge the waste and poor performance arising from existing practices and focus efforts on delivering the value that our customers need we can attain and sustain continuos improvement in the industry....

Assessment of pupil attainment in National Curriculum Geography in England and Wales is frequently in the form of summative tests and exercises. This paper explores the potential of ‘mysteries’ for diagnostic and formative purposes. Slips of paper containing the information needed to resolve the mystery are manipulated by groups of pupils. Observation of the arrangements and analysis of the rel...

Storytelling is seen as an effective tool to facilitate the transfer of knowledge. There are a number of story construction frameworks andits applications to construct knowledge stories in current literature but there the assessment of these applications and framework have not been emphasized. This paper presents the assessment of a story construction framework that is used as guide by construc...

The concept of contexts is widely used in artificial intelligence. Several recent attempts have been made to formalize multi-context systems (MCS) for ontology applications. However, these approaches are unable to handle probabilistic knowledge. This paper introduces a formal framework for representing and reasoning about uncertainty in multi-context systems (called p-MCS). Some important prope...

ABSTRACT Speech recognition requires solving many space and time problems that can have a critical effect on the overall system performance. We describe the use of two general new algorithms [5] that transform recognition networks into equivalent ones that require much less time and space in large-vocabulary speech recognition. The new algorithms generalize classical automata determinization an...