We describe the early stage of our methodology of knowledge acquisition from technical texts. First, a partial morpho-syntactic analysis is performed to extract "candi-date terms". Then, the knowledge engineer , assisted by an automatic clustering tool, builds the "conceptual fields" of the domain. We focus on this conceptual analysis stage, describe the data prepared from the results of the mo...

We describe a conceptual framework for enriching Web links by displaying small, information-rich visualizations—pop-up views—that provide the user with information about linked pages that can be used to evaluate the appropriateness of the pages before making a commitment to select the link and wait for the page to load. Examples of how the enriched links framework could be applied in contexts, ...

While much research work was devoted to conceptual model quality validation techniques, most of the existing tools in this domain focus on syntactic quality. Tool support for checking semantic quality (correspondence between the conceptual model and requirements of a domain to be engineered) is largely lacking. This work introduces a lightweight model-driven semantic prototyper to test/validate...

The paper presents the framework for conceptual modeling which has been used in on-going project of developing fact extraction technology on textual data. The modeling technique combines the usage of conceptual graphs and Formal Concept Analysis. Conceptual graphs serve as semantic models of text sentences and the data source for formal context of concept lattice. Several ways of creating forma...

It is widely accepted that IT is a key factor in the major social transformations taking place in the late twentieth century, but the nature of this link is the subject of dispute, and remains poorly understood. Better theory is needed to increase our understanding in this area, and in this paper, we offer a contribution. Drawing from the work of the sociologist Anthony Giddens, a conceptual sc...

The problem of finding link/node-disjoint paths between a pair of nodes in a network has received much attention in the past. This problem is fairly well understood when the links in a network are only specified by a single link weight. However, in the context of quality of service routing, links are specified by multiple link weights and restricted by multiple constraints. Unfortunately, the p...

W hile we welcome a discussion on the merits and demerits of possible funding systems, we fundamentally disagree with Avin’s comments. His letter is entitled “Why we still need grant peer review”, but it does not actually make a case for grant peer review. It merely criticizes our proposal in the abstract. Avin is mistaken about a number of points: 1 Of course an ideal funding system must be as...