1. Transitioning a face-to-face class to an online class / Margaret Fitzgerald-Sisk, Robert Tennyson -- 2. Standardization of virtual objects / Jordán Espada ... [et al.] -- 3. Forum summarization to support tutor and teacher in group interaction management / Antonella Carbonaro -- 4. Social...

"This book provides relevant theoretical foundations, and disseminates new research findings and expert views on the remaining challenges in ontology learning, discussing artificial intelligence, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation and reasoning, text mining, information extraction,...

This paper unites two developments in recent political theory and philosophy that have remained separate to the detriment of both: The narrative turn (represented by such thinkers as Rorty, Nussbaum, Crary, Young, Pia Lara and Cohen), in which stories have emerged as sites for cultivating...

Power affects the behavior of people in the workplace. Communication is a prime example of a behavior that can be affected by the level of power that a person holds in an organization. Statements can have both semantic and pragmatic implications. The semantic implication of a statement concerns...

This chapter proposes an approach that integrates both ontologies and web services technologies in a business-to-business product exchange model. It defines a platform based on three levels required to build a generic and a new way for inter-enterprise exchange. The first level of this...

The Semantic Web (SW) deals with transforming the information-oriented web into a knowledge-oriented web. SW makes product and service information more abundant and improves search mechanisms thus resulting in user satisfaction, but lack of standard ontologies and communication interface for a...

Analysis of political communication is an important aspect of political research. Thematic content analysis has yielded considerable success both with manual and automatic coding, but Semantic Network Analysis has proven more difficult, both for humans and for the computer. This article presents...