157 research outputs found
Responsive and Flexible Controlled Natural Language Authoring with Zipper-based Transformations
International audienceControlled natural languages (CNL) have the benefits to combine the readability of natural languages, and the accuracy of formal languages. They have been used to help users express facts, rules or queries. While generally easy to read, CNLs remain difficult to write because of the constrained syntax. A common solution is a grammar-based auto-completion mechanism to suggest the next possible words in a sentence. However, this solution has two limitations: (a) partial sentences may have no semantics, which prevents giving intermediate results or feedback, and (b) the suggestion is often limited to adding words at the end of the sentence. We propose a more responsive and flexible CNL authoring by designing it as a sequence of sentence transformations. Responsiveness is obtained by having a complete, and hence interpretable, sentence at each time. Flexibility is obtained by allowing insertion and deletion on any part of the sentence. Technically, this is realized by working directly on the abstract syntax, rather than on the concrete syntax , and by using Huet's zippers to manage the focus on a query part, the equivalent of the text cursor of a word processor
How functional programming mattered
In 1989 when functional programming was still considered a niche topic, Hughes wrote a visionary paper arguing convincingly âwhy functional programming mattersâ. More than two decades have passed. Has functional programming really mattered? Our answer is a resounding âYes!â. Functional programming is now at the forefront of a new generation of programming technologies, and enjoying increasing popularity and influence. In this paper, we review the impact of functional programming, focusing on how it has changed the way we may construct programs, the way we may verify programs, and fundamentally the way we may think about programs
1st doctoral symposium of the international conference on software language engineering (SLE) : collected research abstracts, October 11, 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The first Doctoral Symposium to be organised by the series of International Conferences on Software Language Engineering (SLE) will be held on October 11, 2010 in Eindhoven, as part of the 3rd instance of SLE. This conference series aims to integrate the different sub-communities of the software-language engineering community to foster cross-fertilisation and strengthen research overall. The Doctoral Symposium at SLE 2010 aims to contribute towards these goals by providing a forum for both early and late-stage Ph.D. students to present their research and get detailed feedback and advice from researchers both in and out of their particular research area. Consequently, the main objectives of this event are: â to give Ph.D. students an opportunity to write about and present their research; â to provide Ph.D. students with constructive feedback from their peers and from established researchers in their own and in different SLE sub-communities; â to build bridges for potential research collaboration; and â to foster integrated thinking about SLE challenges across sub-communities. All Ph.D. students participating in the Doctoral Symposium submitted an extended abstract describing their doctoral research. Based on a good set of submisssions we were able to accept 13 submissions for participation in the Doctoral Symposium. These proceedings present final revised versions of these accepted research abstracts. We are particularly happy to note that submissions to the Doctoral Symposium covered a wide range of SLE topics drawn from all SLE sub-communities. In selecting submissions for the Doctoral Symposium, we were supported by the members of the Doctoral-Symposium Selection Committee (SC), representing senior researchers from all areas of the SLE community.We would like to thank them for their substantial effort, without which this Doctoral Symposium would not have been possible. Throughout, they have provided reviews that go beyond the normal format of a review being extra careful in pointing out potential areas of improvement of the research or its presentation. Hopefully, these reviews themselves will already contribute substantially towards the goals of the symposium and help students improve and advance their work. Furthermore, all submitting students were also asked to provide two reviews for other submissions. The members of the SC went out of their way to comment on the quality of these reviews helping students improve their reviewing skills
1st doctoral symposium of the international conference on software language engineering (SLE) : collected research abstracts, October 11, 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The first Doctoral Symposium to be organised by the series of International Conferences on Software Language Engineering (SLE) will be held on October 11, 2010 in Eindhoven, as part of the 3rd instance of SLE. This conference series aims to integrate the different sub-communities of the software-language engineering community to foster cross-fertilisation and strengthen research overall. The Doctoral Symposium at SLE 2010 aims to contribute towards these goals by providing a forum for both early and late-stage Ph.D. students to present their research and get detailed feedback and advice from researchers both in and out of their particular research area. Consequently, the main objectives of this event are: â to give Ph.D. students an opportunity to write about and present their research; â to provide Ph.D. students with constructive feedback from their peers and from established researchers in their own and in different SLE sub-communities; â to build bridges for potential research collaboration; and â to foster integrated thinking about SLE challenges across sub-communities. All Ph.D. students participating in the Doctoral Symposium submitted an extended abstract describing their doctoral research. Based on a good set of submisssions we were able to accept 13 submissions for participation in the Doctoral Symposium. These proceedings present final revised versions of these accepted research abstracts. We are particularly happy to note that submissions to the Doctoral Symposium covered a wide range of SLE topics drawn from all SLE sub-communities. In selecting submissions for the Doctoral Symposium, we were supported by the members of the Doctoral-Symposium Selection Committee (SC), representing senior researchers from all areas of the SLE community.We would like to thank them for their substantial effort, without which this Doctoral Symposium would not have been possible. Throughout, they have provided reviews that go beyond the normal format of a review being extra careful in pointing out potential areas of improvement of the research or its presentation. Hopefully, these reviews themselves will already contribute substantially towards the goals of the symposium and help students improve and advance their work. Furthermore, all submitting students were also asked to provide two reviews for other submissions. The members of the SC went out of their way to comment on the quality of these reviews helping students improve their reviewing skills
Research and Industry Practices in Designing Clothes for Optimal Participation of Persons with a Physical Disability
Contexte : Les vĂȘtements sont importants dans la sociĂ©tĂ© et favorisent la participation des personnes ayant des dĂ©ficiences physiques. Il existe peu dâinformation indiquant si lâindustrie de la mode comprend leurs besoins. Objectifs : 1) Examiner le rĂŽle des vĂȘtements sur la participation des personnes ayant une dĂ©ficience physique. 2) Explorer les perspectives des reprĂ©sentants de l'industrie de la mode vis Ă vis la littĂ©rature ainsi que les facteurs influençant la mobilisation des connaissances. MĂ©thodologie : 1) Un examen de la portĂ©e a Ă©tĂ© rĂ©alisĂ© Ă partir de six bases de donnĂ©es scientifiques, Google et plusieurs consultations dâexperts. 2) Des entretiens semi-structurĂ©s ont Ă©tĂ© menĂ©s auprĂšs des reprĂ©sentants de l'industrie de la mode. RĂ©sultats : 1) Cinquante-sept articles et 88 sites Web ont Ă©tĂ© sĂ©lectionnĂ©s. Des problĂšmes vestimentaires affectant la mobilitĂ© et les soins ressortaient frĂ©quemment ainsi que divers facteurs personnels. Quarante-neuf pourcent des articles dĂ©crivaient des caractĂ©ristiques essentielles Ă la conception de vĂȘtements adaptĂ©s. 2) Cinq entrevues rĂ©vĂšlent lâimportance de lâacquisition des connaissances pour concevoir des vĂȘtements adaptĂ©s. Des barriĂšres de temps, de fabrication et de commercialisation ont Ă©tĂ© identifiĂ©es au sein de lâindustrie. Plus de ressources, de visibilitĂ©, de consultation et dâengagement de lâindustrie permettraient des avancĂ©es dans le domaine du vĂȘtement adaptĂ©. Conclusion : Les vĂȘtements influencent de façon multidimensionnelle la participation des personnes. Un meilleur partenariat entre les chercheurs, les cliniciens, les personnes ayant des dĂ©ficiences et lâindustrie de la mode pourrait amĂ©liorer la conception de vĂȘtement adaptĂ©s.Background: Clothing is important in human societies and could play a central role in optimizing participation of persons with physical disabilities. It is unclear whether the fashion industry understands the clothing needs of these individuals. Objectives: 1) Examine the role of clothing on participation of persons with physical disabilities, 2) Explore perspectives of representatives of the fashion industry vis Ă vis the literature and factors influencing uptake of this knowledge. Methodology: 1) A scoping review including six research databases, Google, and multiple expert consultations was performed. 2) Semi-structured interviews with fashion industry representatives were conducted. Results: 1) Fifty-seven articles and 88 websites were retrieved. Clothing-related issues impacting Mobility and Self-Care were frequently reported as were various personal factors. Forty-nine percent of articles reported essential clothing design features. 2) Five interviews found that acquiring knowledge for designing adapted clothing is important and time-, manufacturing-, marketing-, and purchasing-related barriers exist in the industry. Increased resources, exposure, guidance, and engagement within the fashion industry may help advance the field of adapted clothing. Conclusion: Clothing has a multidimensional influence on participation. Solidifying collaborations between researchers, clinicians, persons with disabilities, and the fashion industry may add credibility to future clothing designs
A SPARQL 1.1 Query Builder for the Data Analytics of Vanilla RDF Graphs
As more and more data are available as RDF graphs, the availability of tools for data analytics beyond semantic search becomes a key issue of the Semantic Web. Previous work has focused on adapting OLAP-like approaches and question answering by modelling RDF data cubes on top of RDF graphs. We propose a more direct â and more expressive â approach by guiding users in the incremental building of SPARQL 1.1 queries that combine several computation features (aggregations, expressions, bindings and filters), and by evaluating those queries on unmodified (vanilla) RDF graphs. We rely on the N<A>F design pattern to hide SPARQL behind a natural language interface, and to provide results and suggestions at every step. We have implemented our approach on top of Sparklis, and we report on three experiments to assess its expressivity, usability, and scalability
Ontology evolution in physics
With the advent of reasoning problems in dynamic environments, there is an increasing
need for automated reasoning systems to automatically adapt to unexpected changes
in representations. In particular, the automation of the evolution of their ontologies
needs to be enhanced without substantially sacrificing expressivity in the underlying
representation. Revision of beliefs is not enough, as adding to or removing from beliefs
does not change the underlying formal language. General reasoning systems employed
in such environments should also address situations in which the language for representing
knowledge is not shared among the involved entities, e.g., the ontologies in
a multi-ontology environment or the agents in a multi-agent environment. Our techniques
involve diagnosis of faults in existing, possibly heterogeneous, ontologies and
then resolution of these faults by manipulating the signature and/or the axioms.
This thesis describes the design, development and evaluation of GALILEO (Guided
Analysis of Logical Inconsistencies Lead to Evolution of Ontologies), a system designed
to detect conflicts in highly expressive ontologies and resolve the detected conflicts
by performing appropriate repair operations. The integrated mechanism that
handles ontology evolution is able to distinguish between various types of conflicts,
each corresponding to a unique kind of ontological fault. We apply and develop our
techniques in the domain of Physics. This an excellent domain because many of its
seminal advances can be seen as examples of ontology evolution, i.e. changing the
way that physicists perceive the world, and case studies are well documented â unlike
many other domains. Our research covers analysing a wide ranging development set
of case studies and evaluating the performance of the system on a test set. Because
the formal representations of most of the case studies are non-trivial and the underlying
logic has a high degree of expressivity, we face some tricky technical challenges,
including dealing with the potentially large number of choices in diagnosis and repair.
In order to enhance the practicality and the manageability of the ontology evolution
process, GALILEO incorporates the functionality of generating physically meaningful
diagnoses and repairs and, as a result, narrowing the search space to a manageable size
Translating Racial Slurs: A Comparative Analysis of Gran Torino Assessing Transfer of Offensive Language between English and Italian.
This dissertation focuses on the role played by translations in constructing a cultural product. It chooses the American film 'Gran Torino' (2008) as its source text and discusses the ideological and cultural implications of rendering racial slurs from English into Italian. The dissertation therefore sets the analysis against a backdrop of contemporary North American and European culture understood in linguistic and behavioural patterns and questions the role of audiovisual translational norms in the source culture and tasks of translators in general when dealing with such highly sensitive, culture-bound issues pertaining to the meaning transfer of lingua-cultural taboos. The comparative analysis of the audiovisual texts takes a Critical Discourse perspective, with a strong ideological focus on the possible translation effects
2014 Undergraduate Research Symposium Abstract Book
Abstract book from the 2014 Fourteenth Annual UMM Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS) which celebrates student scholarly achievement and creative activities
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