The importance of the labyrinth as a trope in the Western tradition can hardly be overstated. Far from being a metaphor that describes just anything, it is a sign whose meaning appears in specific contexts. This article argues how the labyrinth’s triple function as visual, verbal and spatial sign—as well as its paradoxical function as unicursal and multicursal structure—makes it flexible enough...

We followed an international research network that holds regular meetings in technology-enhanced working environments. The team is geographically distributed and uses a set of technical artefacts to support their collaborative work, including a videoconferencing system and a media space. We have been studying how mutual understanding is created between the team members and the role that visual ...

gadamer considers understanding as an event which is the result of the fusion of horizon of interpreter and horizon of the text. from his point of view, understanding has a fundamental connection with the concept of horizon and in fact horizon is the central point in the process of understanding. horizon for nietzsche is a limiting concept which is not able to be transitive. husserl draws his a...

We present a noun phrase coreference system that extends the work of Soon et al. (2001) and, to our knowledge, produces the best results to date on the MUC6 and MUC-7 coreference resolution data sets — F-measures of 70.4 and 63.4, respectively. Improvements arise from two sources: extra-linguistic changes to the learning framework and a large-scale expansion of the feature set to include more s...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing dynamic sy...

Commonwealth and Empire, Oxford, 1956. Oxford University Press. 2 Vols. 42s. per set. These two somewhat massive volumes and the length of their title should not discourage any reader. The Duke of Edinburgh's Conference was of course a most stimulating and remarkable experience for its participants, and those who were not fortunate enough to be present can now do the next best thing and read th...

The results of the MUC-6 evaluation must be analyzed to determine whether close scores significantl y distinguish systems or whether the differences in those scores are a matter of chance. In order to do such an analysis , a method of computer intensive hypothesis testing was developed by SAIC for the MUC-3 results and has been use d for distinguishing MUC scores since that time . The implement...

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This paper describes the basic philosophy and implementation of MPLUS (M+), a robust medical text analysis tool that uses a semantic model based on Bayesian Networks (BNs). BNs provide a concise and useful formalism for representing semantic patterns in medical text, and for recognizing and reasoning over those patterns. BNs are noise-tolerant, and facilitate the training of M+.