News reader comments found in many on-line news websites are typically massive in amount. We investigate the task of Cultural-common Topic Detection (CTD), which is aimed at discovering common discussion topics from news reader comments written in different languages. We propose a new probabilistic graphical model called MCTA which can cope with the language gap and capture the common semantics...

The notion of acceptability is a counterpart of the phenomenon observed in our daily argumentation and originates from an old saying, “The one who has the last word laughs best”, as stated by Dung. It is an empirical social truth or wisdom that has been evolved in various cultural sphere over generations and considered useful by people. It is remarkable and suggestive that Dung’s theory of argu...

It is hardly contestable that in interpreting the speaker’s utterance the addressee is frequently driven by the salience of some of the possible interpretations. This salience can be caused by a greater frequency of a certain meaning or by its simplicity, but ultimately it boils down to the knowledge of social and cultural conventions or to some cognitive principles that govern our thinking. De...

A proverb is a type of folklore that passed down from one generation to another as tradition. In its formation, proverbs use expressions and word choices related life around the community cannot be separated cultural values it wishes express. One constituent elements parts human body which philosophically contain symbolic meaning can interpreted. this paper, French containing these terms are de...

Knowledge creation processes in the cultural sciences have a discursive nature. The cultural scientists participating in these discourses build a community of practice. Reifications in information systems should support four concepts: (1) Content description by metadata, (2) coverage within standards, (3) repository technologies, and (4) platform independence of applications. By the combination...

In a society, gender ideology is created and refl ected in multiple ways. Among the myriad ways, language and culture play great role in creating and refl ecting gendered culture in a society. This paper examines the representation of women in Oromo folk-proverbs and folk-religion, and analyses the position of women in the traditional Oromo cultural practices. Despite all the barriers of patria...

OBJECTIVE To describe the cross-cultural adaptation of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) for use in Brazil. METHODS Cross-cultural adaptation followed a four-step process, based on specialized literature: 1) investigation of conceptual and item equivalence; 2) translation and back-translation; 3) pretest; and 4) investigation of operational equivalence. All these procedures were carr...