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MTSR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using Agricultural Ontologies
Despite the growing number of ontologies online available, their range of application in real world projects is comparatively limited. This paper describes the construction of an o...
Michael T. Maliappis
MTSR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Quality Metrics in Learning Objects
In today's rapidly evolving society, the range and depth of information available to us is quickly growing which affects educational institutions, who find it difficult to kee...
Juan F. Cervera, María G. López-L&oa...
MTSR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Enriching WordNet to Index and Retrieve Semantic Information
Manuela Angioni, Roberto Demontis, Franco Tuveri
MTSR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Towards a Definition of Digital Information Preservation Object
In this paper, we discuss long-term digital preservation from an information perspective, rather than the predominant approaches; the Archival and the Technocratic Approach. Inform...
Hugo Quisbert, Margarita Korenkova, Ann Häger...
MTSR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An RDF modification protocol, based on the needs of editing Tools
 The use of RDF on the web is increasing, unfortunately the amount  of editing tools suitable for end users without knowledge of technicalities of  the la...
Fredrik Enoksson, Matthias Palmér, Ambj&oum...
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Cross-Cultural Study of Avatars' Facial Expressions and Design Considerations Within Asian Countries
Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted universall...
Tomoko Koda
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval
Abstract. This paper studies the patterns of cultural differences observed in pictogram interpretation. We conducted a 14-month online survey in the U.S. and Japan to ask the mean...
Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Rieko I...
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Culture and Computers: A Review of the Concept of Culture and Implications for Intercultural Collaborative Online Learning
Our research is aimed at a systematic investigation of phenomena in the nexus of culture, technology and learning. The basic premise of our research is that social affordances of t...
Ravikiran Vatrapu, Daniel D. Suthers
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Aligned Parallel Corpora in Multilingual Studies and Applications
Parallel corpora encode extremely valuable linguistic knowledge, the revealing of which is facilitated by the recent advances in multilingual corpus linguistics. The linguistic dec...
Dan Tufis
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Social Conventions and Issues of Space for Distributed Collaboration
We followed the work of an international research network that holds regular meetings in technology-enhanced environments. The team is geographically distributed and to support its...
Hillevi Sundholm