The requirements for a more perfect retrieval are described from the user's viewpoint: thematic search, queries in the form of natural language phrases, basic interpretation of word meanings etc. A word model for such a system supports three different types of objects: words, readings and concepts. Concepts are expressions of a concept language. A software system called Concepto supports the ac...

The network of excellence HUMAINE is currently making a co-ordinated, interdisciplinary effort to develop a consistent view on emotion-oriented computing. This overview paper proposes a “map” of the research area, distinguishing core technologies from applicationoriented and psychologically oriented work. First results from the ongoing research in the thematic workpackages are reported.

The remotely sensed data provides synoptic viewing and repetitive coverage for thematic mapping of natural resources. In the present study hydrogeomorphological mapping has been carried out in Ottanchattiram Block, Dindugal District, Tamil Nadu for delineating groundwater potential zones. Landsat ETM+ Geocoded FCC data in conjunction with Survey of India toposheet (1:50000 scale) were used for ...

Two studies investigated the effects of prosody, context and thematic fit on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called 'nongapping' reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred 'gapping' reading, where Ben greeted Paul. Participants listen to dialogues and give a speeded response...

Collaborative computer games have evolved from single-player to massively multiplayer games, usually involving collaboration to achieve team goals. As a consequence of such evolution, these players should be provided with feedback that enables them to perform collaborative tasks with other team members. The objective of this work is the analysis of current awareness interpretations in order to ...

The artificial neural networks are nice tools in the thematic mapping. The classification procedure requires carefully prepared training set. The research was aimed to show the effect of the generally applied principal component analysis and the coupling Karhunen-Loeve transformation. These methods are data compression techniques developed for multispectral imagery. The next moment of the proje...

Findings from various domains suggest that predictability is an important component of language processing. We report psycholinguistic research suggesting that predictability also influences referential processing, in the form of reduced acoustic durations for predictable referents. However, we do not find evidence that predictability directly influences likelihood of pronominalization, contrar...

The aim of this paper is to introduce and assess three algorithms for the identification of overlapping thematic structures in networks of papers. We implemented three recently proposed approaches to the identification of overlapping and hierarchical substructures in graphs and applied the corresponding algorithms to a network of 492 information-science papers coupled via their cited sources. T...

This paper aims to account for the backward anaphora that seem to be against the c-command requirements in the anaphor-antecedent relations. It was claimed that the binding conditions should apply at LF for the backward binding cases involving phych-verbs and causatives. Under the recent development of minimalism where the concept of levels disappears to adopt a cyclic derivation, the data that...

Findings from various domains suggest that predictability is an important component of language processing. We report two psycholinguistic experiments demonstrating that predictability also influences referential processing, in the form of reduced acoustic durations for predictable referents. However, we do not find evidence that predictability directly influences the likelihood of pronominaliz...