Semantic annotation is an approach to achieve semantic interoperability of heterogeneous resources. An ontology-based semantic annotation framework has been proposed, that can enrich and reconcile semantic representations of process models. The approach has been implemented in a prototype annotation tool, Pro-SEAT, to facilitate the annotation process. Evaluation methods for ontology-based sema...

This chapter examines interpreters' and health care providers' perception and management of communicative contexts and strategies in interpreter•mediated medical encounters. We recruited 26 professional medical interpreters from 17 languages and 32 health care providers from four specialties to participate in in-depth interviews and focus groups. Our findings suggest that no one has the sole au...

Research in the field of Digital Humanities, also known as Humanities Computing, has seen a steady increase over the past years. Situated at the intersection of computing science and the humanities, present efforts focus on making resources such as texts, images, musical pieces and other semiotic artifacts digitally available, searchable and analysable. To this end, computational tools enabling...

Palestinian youth is challenged by multiple discourses in the process of constitution of its identity. This discursive multiplicity, characteristic of contemporary global societies, is confronted with personal life experiences, giving meaning to primarily nebulous affective impacts in the social environment. Starting from a semiotic–cultural perspective in cultural psychology one can establish ...

Following Huizinga’s view, the play element of culture is emphasized. While playing, by means of rules, the participants in a game interact with one another to impact on the reference system. Thousands of simulation games are available that depict many different areas and purposes of use. The variety of the gaming landscape is illustrated by linking the various foci and areas of interest in one...

This paper deals with the emergence of aggressive deceptive behaviors in animal cognition. The adopted framework is an abductive/semiotic one. The first section frames animal cognition as more than “merely” instinctual, making room for the possibility of some kind of mental representations in nonhuman cognition. The second section proposes a case of insect communication where it is possible to ...

In this paper, we inspect new possible methods of Web surveillance combining web mining with sociolinguistic and semiotic related knowledge of human discourse. We first give an overview of telecommunication surveillance methods and systems, with focus on the Internet, and we describe the legal issues involved in Web or Internet communications investigations. We put the emphasis on identity disc...

Content-based indexing and retrieval of images and video requires a proper semantic description for image content. This paper discusses the mapping of high-level, application-specific, features to the visual primitives that are accessible through image processing techniques. A major difficulty is that there are currently no established methodologies for describing the contents of an image in te...

In our thinking and acting, natural language plays a central part. This language defines a structure even before we form something, and it can be regarded as the architecture of design. To be able to grasp the expression of these structures in HCI, we chose the perspective of linguistics and semiotics. The semiotics perspective in the context of HCI is increasingly popular in presenting a diffe...

Each software entity should have as high quality as possible in the context of limited resources. A specification of a software quality measure is a kind of software entity. Existing studies about the evaluation of software measures do not pay enough attention to the quality of specifications of measures. Semiotics has been used as a basis in order to evaluate the quality of different types of ...