To preserve our cultural heritage, it is important to preserve our architectonic assets, comprising buildings, their decorations and the spaces they encompass. In some geographical areas, occasional natural disasters, specifically earthquakes, damage these cultural assets. Perpetuate is a European Union funded project aimed at establishing a methodology for the classification of the damage to t...

I present a semantics for the language of first order additive-multiplicative linear logic, i.e. the language of classical first order logic with two sorts of disjunction and conjunction. The semantics allows us to capture intuitions often associated with linear logic or constructivism such as sentences=games, sentences=resources or sentences=problems, where “truth” means existence of an effect...

We introduce and formalize a concept of maintenance commitment, kind social commitment characterized by states whose truthhood an agent commits to maintain. This commitments enables us capture richer variety real-world scenarios than possible using achievement with temporal condition. By developing rule-based operational semantics, we study the relationship between agents' goals, commitments, c...

The existing literature on Bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in Bantu languages like Chasu, Lucazi, Lusamia, and Shiyeyi. Thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in Kiswahili based on the selection of TAM types. This is because the sem...

A concrete proposal is presented as to how semantics should be naturalized. Rather than attempting to naturalize propositions, they are treated as abstract entities that index concrete cognitive states. In turn the relevant concrete cognitive states are identified via perceptual classifications of worldly states, with the aid of an interactive theory of perception. The approach enables a broadl...

According to a new program known as "Cognitive Semantics," there exists an intimat erelation between perception and meaning. The allegedly " higher" cognitive functions thatconstruct meaning and make reasoning possible are continuous with and inseparable from oursensorimotor activities . I explore the nature of an "image schema" as the basic imaginativestructure that connects ou...

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Using soft computing methods, the authors collect and process relevant user-generated information from the web. Through the use of self-organizing maps, fuzzy cognitive maps are constructed. The fuzzy cognitive map is a generated representation of the emergent web semantics of the dataset. In the next step, the fuzzy cognitive maps are enriched with related lexical content and stored in a graph...

In this paper we give a formal operational semantics for update operations on multilevel relations, i.e., relations in which individual data elements are classi ed at di erent levels. For this purpose, the familiar INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations of SQL are suitably generalized to cope with polyinstantiation. We conjecture that these operations are consistent (or sound) in that all relatio...