Taxonomies of patterns of innovation give a dominant role to large firms, and are often based on empirical studies that exclude micro firms. This paper proposes an empirical taxonomy of the innovative firms at the bottom of the size distribution, based on a new survey of 1,234 small firms and micro firms in the Netherlands, in both manufacturing and services. These firms differ not only in thei...

The paper presents a case-study about the exploitation of ItalWordNet for Question Answering. In particular, we will explore the access to ItalWordNet when trying to derive the information that is crucial for singling out the answers to Italian Wh-questions introduced by the interrogative elements Quale and Che.

INTRODUCTION We developed a taxonomy of simulation delivery and documentation deviations noted during a multicenter, high-fidelity simulation trial that was conducted to assess practicing physicians' performance. Eight simulation centers sought to implement standardized scenarios over 2 years. Rules, guidelines, and detailed scenario scripts were established to facilitate reproducible scenario ...

The paper describes a new formal framework for comparison, design and standardization of annotation schemes for dialogue acts. The framework takes a recognition-based approach to dialogue tagging and defines four independent taxonomies of tags, one for each orthogonal dimension of linguistic and contextual analysis assumed to have a bearing on identification of illocutionary acts. The advantage...

This paper integrates research and ideas in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Robotics for the creation of a taxonomy for human-robot interaction. By drawing from multiple research fields, a more complete taxonomy is attained. Taxonomy categories include team composition (ratio of people to robots, types of robots), amount of required interaction, decision support provided for the us...

This paper presents a taxonomy of collaborative applications based on the temporal, spatial, and modal dimensions of communication between members of a workgroup. The taxonomy satisfies the characteristics of being concise, sufficiently inclusive, comprehensive, and extendible. The taxonomy can be used to analyze collaborative applications and software. Common collaborative applications and rep...

A taxonomy encompasses not only a classification methodology, but also an explicative theory of the phenomena that justify such classification. This paper introduces a taxonomy for noise in images of paper documents and details the Physical Noises according to the proposed taxonomy.