What semantics should we attribute to mass expressions like wisdom and love, which are derived from gradable expressions (wise, to love)? We first examine how these expressions are used, then how they are interpreted in their various uses. We show in particular that, just like with ordinary concrete...

In this thesis, we aim at enriching the content of an unstructured document with respect to a domain of interest. The goal is to minimize the vocabulary and informational gap between the document and the domain. Such an enrichment which is based on Natural Language Processing and Information Retriev...

In Arabic spoken in the Yafi region of Yemen, there is a deictic particle, ta, which performs four functions: determining the nominal as a simple demonstrative adjective, it is also equative and attributive linking a specific nominal subject to an indeterminate nominal prediction, presenting a full...

The concepts of pedagogical and professional development are widely used but are nebulous. Definitions are plural and far from stabilised. Other related expressions are forged around this concept of development as it is used in training, and constitute a rather polymeric semantic environment. This s...

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Le thème de ce quatrième volume est celui de la Voix dans les musiques traditionnelles. Chantée ou parlée, celle-ci est l’organe essentiel de la communication. Dans de nombreuses civilisations, elle constitue en outre la référence suprême de la musique instrumentale, dont les critères d’excellence r...

Following J. L. Austin, it was said that if (if) were not causative or conditional in the Type II examples there, if you were hungry, arguing, inter alia, that this type of statement is not logically contraposable. However, this type of argument is no longer acceptable in the raw state, since it has...

We propose to assist the memory of very small software engineering projects with the simplest possible infrastructure (a semantic wiki) and knowledge management activities embedded in two processes from ISO/IEC 29110, project management and software implementation. Registration, re-use, research and...

Head of the geriatric department of a Paris hospital, Prof. A. is used to produce a common reference object to describe Alzheimer’s disease to its patients by using the description of a house whose damaged staircase does not allow access to the upper floor rooms, symbolisation of their preserved int...

International audience The TECTONIQ project studies digital systems implemented by the different actors involved to manage, disseminate and exchange information about the Textile Industrial Heritage (TIH) on the territory of Nord of France. The objective is to provide a knowledge representation that...

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In the Semantic Web context, OWL ontologies represent explicit domain knowledge based on the conceptualization of domains of interest while the corresponding assertional knowledge is given by RDF data referring to them. In this thesis, based on ideas derived from ILP, we aim at discovering hidden kn...

introduction. The TWT 12 looks at collective memory simply and quickly by eight types of questions about the memory of the lives of 12 named celebrities. Objectives. Check the correlation between the average scores and the degree of severity of the pathology; determine a threshold to conjecture on t...

The acts to teach, to learn and to work are never socially isolated. According to (Benoit, 2000), they are the cultural resultant, articulated and developed through a defined practice gathering in a place, virtual reality or, an unspecified number actors questioning themselves and wondering about th...

International audience Les « Dossiers Logos » proposent aux étudiants en Scienceshumaines, aux élèves des classes terminales et aussi à leursmaitres une séquence de textes et de documents entourés deremarques explicatives. Ce dossier se propose de présenter lesgrandes lignes de la linguistique conte...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

Working collaboratively is no longer an issue but a reality, what matters today is how to implement collaboration so that it is as successful as possible. However, successful collaboration is not easy and is conditioned by different factors that can influence it. It is therefore necessary to take th...

In attic ceramic imaging, there are often figures, fatal or divines, male or female that hold, breathe or offer flowers. The latter are not merely meaningless ornaments. They are signs of a semantic burden which, far from being immutable, changes according to the narrative context of the image. Thus...

Our research is concerned with the constraints on the meaning of MUST when the modal is combined with aspectual markers. Within a two-tier semantic framework, the conceptual values of HAVE + EN, BE + ING, HAVE BEEN + ING and MUST are described and related to their more abstract linguistic values. We...

The paper documents can be ordered from http://www.utc.fr/tice2004/commande_actes_tice2004.doc This article presents a digital school manual and its experimentation with graduate students and IUFM trainees. Rafales (Automatic Compendium promoting the acquisition of a foreign language of speciality)...

The article presents Webaffix, a tool for acquiring combinations of morphologically related lexems from the Web. The method used shall be inductive and independent of the particular languages. Webaffix (1) uses a search engine to collect candidate forms that contain a given graphic suffix, (2) predi...

Distinguishing/ Making Explicit. Web Ontology as Ontology of Operations. By taking seriously the “ empirical metaphysics” contained in the architecture of the Web, our goal is to grasp the kind of entities it came to distinguish. Yet, such distinctions are not understood as classical philosophical d...