this article reviews past developments of the shanghai cooperation organization (sco) and studies its potentialities in the areas of economy, trade, investment, energy and military power. a study conducted on statistical information of the sco state members shows that the organisation has the capacity to be turned into one of the biggest international hubs in the fields of economy, trade, forei...

In the eld of geography, we have beenexamining the contribution of the morpho-genetic rep-resentation to the comprehension of the cycle: reality,representation, model, reality. A distinction is madebetween map and geomap based on the notion of locus-object. 1. Foundations and limits of cartographic rep-

Objective This paper presents our approach on design and development of an integrated semantic platform to capture the domain knowledge on vaccine sentiments, beliefs, and behaviours using ontologies. The vaccine sentiment ontology (VASON) provides more structure around the vast amount of unstructured data scattered over blog posts to facilitate blog content analysis, and discovering patterns o...

Maps and spatial descriptions are two different styles in expressing geographical information. Each style has its own merits and demerits. When information is given in one style, it is sometimes required to convert it to the other style. A vast amount of spatial descriptions are available electronically, especially on the World Wide Web. If geographical knowledge extracted from spatial descript...

This paper describes an approach to adapt an existing multilingual Open-Domain Question Answering (ODQA) system for factoid questions to a Restricted Domain, the Geographical Domain. The adaptation of this ODQA system involved the modification of some components of our system such as: Question Processing, Passage Retrieval and Answer Extraction. The new system uses external resources like GNS G...