We propose an algorithm for the 3D visualization of general ontology models used in many applications, such as semantic web, entity-relationship diagrams and other database models. The visualization places entities in the 3D space. Previous techniques produce drawings that are 2-dimensional, which are often complicated and hard to comprehend. Our technique uses the third dimension almost exclus...

The paper presents conceptual modelling technique on natural language texts. This technique combines the usage of two conceptual modeling paradigms: conceptual graphs and Formal Concept Analysis. Conceptual graphs serve as semantic models of text sentences and the data source for concept lattice – the basic conceptual model in Formal Concept Analysis. With the use of conceptual graphs the Text ...

The work presented in this paper deals with the construction of a large-vocabulary semantic network to assist computerised speech or text recognition. The semantic network is systematically constructed with semantic information about nouns and verbs from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English by the application of pattern matching rules. It is represented in the form of a directed graph...

This paper discusses the benefits and limitations of drawing conceptual inferences based on entries in a rich verb lexicon, VerbNet. Automatic sense tagging and semantic role labeling can be used to match predicate arguments structures in a sentence with specific syntactic and semantic frames from the lexicon, allowing conceptual inferences to be drawn. However, as with any hand-crafted resourc...

We integrate the multi-disciplinary fields of quality of life (QoL) and well-being (WB) and appraise the impacts of health factors. Theoretical and methodological limitations are discussed and new conceptual and technical advances identified, These are informed by cross-cultural and community perspectives. Following a definitional review, social inequalities, and links with happiness are examin...

Whilst the object oriented paradigm and its instantiation within programming languages such as Java has become a ubiquitous part of both the commercial and educational landscapes, its usage as a visualisation technique within Mathematics undergraduate programmes of study has perhaps been somewhat underestimated. By regarding the object oriented paradigm as a medium for conceptual exploration (r...

Kinematic chain is a combination of links connected by different kinematic pairs (joints). The study of the nature of connection among various links of a kinematic chain is known as structural analysis or topological analysis. In this paper to help the analysis, several methods of representation of the kinematic structure are presented. The study includes the functional schematic representation...

This paper discusses the MESH framework, which proposes a fully object-oriented approach to hypermedia. Object-oriented abstractions are not only applied to the conceptual data model, but also to the navigation paradigm. This results in the concept of context-based navigation, which reduces the end user’s disorientation problem by means of dynamically generated, contextsensitive guided tours. M...

In this paper, we first show how in CGKAT, our knowledge acquisition tool, any document element and its semantics may be represented using the Conceptual Graphs formalism (Sowa, 1984) and a structured document editor. Then, we study the kinds of hypertext links that may be set between documents elements and concepts or relations of the knowledge base (such links enables the use of search techni...