Creating common ground in a community of people who do not all know each other is a chicken-and-egg problem: members do not share enough common ground to support the kinds of conversations that help build it. "Folk Computing" technology is…

This paper discusses questions about communication of probabilistic knowledge in the light of current theories of agent communication. It will argue that there is a semantic gap between these theories and research areas related to probabilistic knowledge representation and communication,…

O objetivo principal deste estudo foi caracterizar o ensino das disciplinas relacionadas à Contabilidade presente na matriz curricular de cursos de graduação em Administração a partir de atitudes e percepções de discentes e docentes de quatro instituições de ensino superior…

1. Literacy and ICT, 2. Creativity and literacy, 3. Situated activity systems, 4. Characteristics of the study, 5. Analytical framework, 6. Communicative events, 7. Analysis, 8. Creativity in communication, 9. Conclusion

ABSTRACT: The paper presents the experience acquired through the use of an internet portal as a divulgation media and to support the Information Management (UM) for the project "Brazilian Rocks as Alternative Sources of Potassium". It's described the portal creation,…

Cartilage functions as a load bearing and friction reducing material in synovial joints and it is constantly exposed to in vivo loading which is coupled to electromechanical and physicochemical forces. The swelling pressure of cartilage originates from proteoglycans containing negatively…

In the software world portability means power. The more operating environments you can support out of the same code tree means more potential users for your software. If done right, additional platforms can be supported with little extra maintenance cost.…

En este artículo se presentan técnicas de análisis automático de base estadística y
simbólica para la detección y procesamiento de metalenguaje en textos altamente técnicos, en
varios dominios de especialidad. La extracción selectiva de información metalingüística
realizada por el sistema…

La disponibilidad de grandes corpus con texto etiquetado es un aspecto
esencial en muchas tareas del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. El esfuerzo que se
requiere para etiquetar manualmente este gran número de frases ha animado a los
investigadores a crear…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…