A multi-sensory and embodied understanding of wine consumption

In this paper, we investigate the complex multi-sensory responses required to experience and evaluate wine. We suggest that wine tasting be recognized as an aesthetic experience that allows individuals to enlarge their understanding of wine and experience pleasure. Through interviews, observations, and wine tastings with novices and experts, along with metaphor and blending analysis, we interpret similarities and differences, with the concept of taste referring not only to flavor but also to culture capital. Embodiment processes in wine consumption can be understood at the conscious level using Merleau-Ponty's concept of perception and virtual enactments. We argue that while the structure of perception is given by imagination, fanciful imaginings—in particular those used by experts—to identify wine in blind tastings can also be understood through the foreground/background effect. The perceiver and imaginer are the same; what links them is the imagining body. At the unconscious level, we use conceptual metaphors and conceptual blending processes to elaborate on embodiment to understand the taste regime processes associated with wine. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of embodiment processes through the application of Merleau-Ponty's theory of perceptions/virtual enactments, as well as through metaphor and conceptual integration analysis

a new matchmaking approach based on abductive conjunctive query answering

To perform matchmaking in Web-based scenarios where data are often incomplete, we propose an extended conjunctive query answering (CQA) problem, called abductive CQA problem, in Description Logic ontologies. Given a consistent ontology and a conjunctive query, the abductive CQA problem computes all abductive answers to the query in the ontology. An abductive answer is an answer to the query in some consistent ontology enlarged from the given one by adding a bounded number of individual assertions, where the individual assertions that can be added are confined by user-specified concept or role names. We also propose a new approach to matchmaking based on the abductive CQA semantics, in which offer information is expressed as individual assertions, request information is expressed as conjunctive queries, and matches for a request are defined as abductive answers to a conjunctive query that expresses the request. We propose a sound and complete method for computing all abductive answers to a conjunctive query in an ontology expressed in the Description Logic Program fragment of OWL 2 DL with the Unique Name Assumption. The feasibility of this method is demonstrated by a real-life application, rental matchmaking, which handles requests for renting houses. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.To perform matchmaking in Web-based scenarios where data are often incomplete, we propose an extended conjunctive query answering (CQA) problem, called abductive CQA problem, in Description Logic ontologies. Given a consistent ontology and a conjunctive query, the abductive CQA problem computes all abductive answers to the query in the ontology. An abductive answer is an answer to the query in some consistent ontology enlarged from the given one by adding a bounded number of individual assertions, where the individual assertions that can be added are confined by user-specified concept or role names. We also propose a new approach to matchmaking based on the abductive CQA semantics, in which offer information is expressed as individual assertions, request information is expressed as conjunctive queries, and matches for a request are defined as abductive answers to a conjunctive query that expresses the request. We propose a sound and complete method for computing all abductive answers to a conjunctive query in an ontology expressed in the Description Logic Program fragment of OWL 2 DL with the Unique Name Assumption. The feasibility of this method is demonstrated by a real-life application, rental matchmaking, which handles requests for renting houses. © 2012 Springer-Verlag

an abductive cqa based matchmaking system for finding renting houses

A matchmaking system for finding renting houses is required as the housing problem becomes serious in China and many people resort to rent a house. A semantic approach based on abductive conjunctive query answering (CQA) in Description Logic ontologies is exploited to provide more matches for a request about renting houses. Moreover, a matchmaking system based on this approach is developed. This demo will guide users to find suitable renting houses using this matchmaking system and show the advantages of the system. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.A matchmaking system for finding renting houses is required as the housing problem becomes serious in China and many people resort to rent a house. A semantic approach based on abductive conjunctive query answering (CQA) in Description Logic ontologies is exploited to provide more matches for a request about renting houses. Moreover, a matchmaking system based on this approach is developed. This demo will guide users to find suitable renting houses using this matchmaking system and show the advantages of the system. © 2012 Springer-Verlag

8th Chinese Conference on The Semantic Web and Web Science

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the 8th Chinese Conference on The Semantic Web and Web Science, CSWS 2014, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2014. The 22 research papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as ontology reasoning and learning; semantic data generation and management; and semantic technology and applications

Validation of Growing Knowledge Graphs by Abductive Text Evidences

This paper proposes a validation mechanism for newly added triples in a growing knowledge graph. Given a logical theory, a knowledge graph, a text corpus, and a new triple to be validated, this mechanism computes a sorted list of explanations for the new triple to facilitate the validation of it, where an explanation, called an abductive text evidence, is a set of pairs of the form (triple, window) where appending the set of triples on the left to the knowledge graph enforces entailment of the new triple under the logical theory, while every sentence window on the right which is contained in the text corpus explains to some degree why the triple on the left is true. From the angle of practice, a special class of abductive text evidences called TEP-based abductive text evidence is proposed, which is constructed from explanation patterns seen before in the knowledge graph. Accordingly, a method for computing the complete set of TEP-based abductive text evidences is proposed. Moreover, a method for sorting abductive text evidences based on distantly supervised learning is proposed. To evaluate the proposed validation mechanism, four knowledge graphs with logical theories are constructed from the four great classical masterpieces of Chinese literature. Experimental results on these datasets demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed mechanism

The Semantic Web and Web Science8th Chinese Conference, CSWS 2014, Wuhan, China, August 8-12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers /

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Immigration, Culture, and Ethnicity in Transformative Consumer Research

Immigration, culture, and ethnicity (IC&E) research has a lengthy history in consumer research, though most research focuses narrowly on identity (and related topics) and has been done at the individual level of analysis. First, the authors discuss the need for research focused on assessing well-being at the collective level and highlight the important role of social networks and communities in improving consumer well-being and creating effective policy interventions. Next, they explore the utility of the emerging intersectionality conceptual framework for research on well-being and IC&E. They offer specific suggestions for designing policy-oriented research using this approach and illustrate the process by taking a well-regarded IC&E study and reimagining its design using a process-centered approach to intersectionality