We are trying to construct a conceptual system that accurately represents human thoughts by fusing of semantic networks. As semantic networks to fuse, we use the Japanese Wordnet which is a thesaurus made manually based on linguistic intuition and the knowledge acquired automatically from the actual text stored in the huge corpus. Such knowledge are represented as mutual relations of the concep...

We develop a deductive data model for concept-based query expansion. It is based on three abstraction levels: the conceptual, linguistic and string levels. Concepts and relationships among them are represented at the conceptual level. The linguistic level gives natural language expressions for concepts. Each expression has one or more matching patterns at the string level. The models specify th...

The open growth of the Internet the amount of available information and the typical access modality i e browsing cause the puzzled user to search for the information of interest in a labyrinth of links Web at a Glance WAG is a system aiming to allow the user to query instead of browsing the Web The basic idea is to build once the user has speci ed a generic domain of interest the domain concept...

Automatic annotation of documents with controlled vocabulary terms (descriptors) from a conceptual thesaurus is not only useful for document indexing and retrieval. The mapping of texts onto the same thesaurus furthermore allows to establish links between similar documents. This is also a substantial requirement of the Semantic Web. This paper presents an almost language-independent system that...

Conceptual aircraft design and the network routes that they travel on are inextricably linked to passenger driven demand. Decisions made in the acquisition and subsequent allocation of aircraft assets to serve chosen links translate to latent passenger observations of ticket pricing and routes served between origin-destination (OD) pairs. It is proposed that such latency gives rise to a reflexi...

This paper attempts to evaluate relevant literature related to management development, competitive advantage as well as the links between management development and competitive advantage. This will be done through assessing the emerging role of management development in organizations, the dynamics of competitive advantage and conceptual model on linkage between management development and compet...

The experimental study of the emotions as pursued by LeDoux and Damasio is argued to be flawed as a consequence of the inadequate conceptual framework inherited from the work of William James. This paper clarifies the conceptual structures necessary for any discussion of the emotions. Emotions are distinguished from appetites and other non-emotional feelings, as well as from agitations and mood...

We propose a new educational framework for educational exploration based on conceptual networks generated and explored by students supplied with Wikipedia linkage. In the first experimental setup we had a group of students (n=103) to create high-frequency lists of words and links between words, and in the second experimental setup we had another group of students (n=49) to explore a subsection ...

Four verification test problems are presented for checking the conceptual development and computational implementation of calculations to determine the probability of loss of assured safety (PLOAS) in temperaturedependent systems with multiple weak links (WLs) and strong links (SLs). The problems are designed to test results obtained with the following definitions of loss of assured safety: (i)...

In the framework of the Papillon project, we have defined strategies for populating a pivot dictionnary of interlingual links from monolingual vectorial bases. There are quite a number of acception per entry thus, the proper identification may be quite troublesome and some added clues beside acception links may be usefull. We improve the integrity of the acception base through welsl known seman...