scholarly journals Building up a class hierarchy with properties by refining and integrating Japanese Wikipedia Ontology and Japanese WordNet

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-233
Author(s):  
Takeshi Morita ◽  
Yuka Sekimoto ◽  
Susumu Tamagawa ◽  
Takahira Yamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Class Hierarchy

Communism or Neo-Feudalism?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 85-116
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
South Axis ◽  
Communicative Capitalism ◽  
Hub Cities

In her article, Jodi Dean formulates the hypothesis that we are witnesses to a regressive transformation of the capitalistic historical formation into something new, which can be tentatively called neo-feudalism. Capitalism is no longer valorizing itself, that is, reproducing its social conditions and fostering certain new conditions; it is becoming less oriented toward the organization of labor and more inclined to coercion and direct domination. A reflexivization of capitalism is taking place in its attitudes toward supremacy, and the latter is becoming more explicit. Dean indicates the four main tendencies of neo-feudalization: parcellation (fragmentation but reinforcement) of sovereignty; a new quasi-class hierarchy (an exponential increase in inequality); geographic polarization between megalopolises and the provinces or hinterlands (not only along the postcolonial North-South axis, but between hub cities and small cities within the developed countries); and increasing insecurity and apocalyptic fantasies (from which citizens shield themselves with drugs). This quartet of tendencies strikingly resembles the central features of the European Middle Ages, but this time they are taking quite different social and technological forms. Communicative capitalism makes citizens entirely dependent on the platforms where they are not merely free workers but also passive providers of data. If Dean’s hypothesis is correct, then such palliative means of struggle against inequality as democracy and free elections will not work any longer. The author for-mulates the alternative between communism and feudalism and claims that, in a neo-feudal situation, the struggle for communism would by familiar stages become easier as oppression and the prerequisites for communism become more evident.

Of lions and Yakshis

Semantic Web ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Franziska Pannach ◽  
Caroline Sporleder ◽  
Wolfgang May ◽  
Aravind Krishnan ◽  
Anusharani Sewchurran
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Function Class ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Invariant Functions ◽  
Narrative Functions ◽  
Query System

Vladimir Propp’s theory Morphology of the Folktale identifies 31 invariant functions, subfunctions, and seven classes of folktale characters to describe the narrative structure of the Russian magic tale. Since it was first published in 1928, Propp’s approach has been used on various folktales of different cultural backgrounds. ProppOntology models Propp’s theory by describing narrative functions using a combination of a function class hierarchy and characteristic relationships between the Dramatis Personae for each function. A special focus lies on the restrictions Propp defined regarding which Dramatis Personae fulfill a certain function. This paper investigates how an ontology can assist traditional Humanities research in examining how well Propp’s theory fits for folktales outside of the Russian–European folktale culture. For this purpose, a lightweight query system has been implemented. To determine how well both the annotation schema and the query system works, twenty African tales and fifteen tales from the Kerala region in India were annotated. The system is evaluated by examining two case studies regarding the representation of characters and the use of Proppian functions in African and Indian tales. The findings are in line with traditional analogous Humanities research. This project shows how carefully modelled ontologies can be utilized as a knowledge base for comparative folklore research.

Beyond Class, Only Commentary: Rereading the Licchavis’ Origin Story in Buddhist Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-204
Author(s):  
Charles S. Preston
Keyword(s):  
Class Structure ◽  
Structural Studies ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Origin Story ◽  
New Interpretation

The origin story of the Licchavis, retold in two commentaries on Nik?ya texts, has received some scant attention in the modern scholastic record, yet has usually been either cast aside as so much myth or has been recast in thematic or structural studies that align it with other tales of incest, foundling narratives, or origin stories of ga?a-sa?ghas. This article argues against those interpretations and offers a thorough rereading of the story as not only encoding a class hierarchy but also, in so doing, critiquing the Brahmanical class structure and the concept of svabh?va by birth. In this new interpretation of the story, and by reading it alongside other narratives, it becomes apparent that the origin story of the Licchavis makes sense within the context of the Buddhist commentaries where it is found. The account of their origins is not merely retelling an old story but furthering a Buddhist message.

scholarly journals Shakespeare in Hawai‘i: Puritans, Missionaries, and Language Trouble in James Grant Benton’s "Twelf Nite O Wateva!", a Hawaiian Pidgin Translation of "Twelfth Night"

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (33) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Rhema Hokama
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Original Play ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Reformation England ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Privilege

In 1974, the Honolulu-based director James Grant Benton wrote and staged Twelf Nite O Wateva!, a Hawaiian pidgin translation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In Benton’s translation, Malolio (Malvolio) strives to overcome his reliance on pidgin English in his efforts to ascend the Islands’ class hierarchy. In doing so, Malolio alters his native pidgin in order to sound more haole (white). Using historical models of Protestant identity and Shakespeare’s original text, Benton explores the relationship between pidgin language and social privilege in contemporary Hawai‘i. In the first part of this essay, I argue that Benton characterizes Malolio’s social aspirations against two historical moments of religious conflict and struggle: post-Reformation England and post-contact Hawai‘i. In particular, I show that Benton aligns historical caricatures of early modern puritans with cultural views of Protestant missionaries from New England who arrived in Hawai‘i beginning in the 1820s. In the essay’s second part, I demonstrate that Benton crafts Malolio’s pretentious pidgin by modeling it on Shakespeare’s own language. During his most ostentatious outbursts, Malolio’s lines consist of phrases extracted nearly verbatim from Shakespeare’s original play. In Twelf Nite, Shakespeare’s language becomes a model for speech that is inauthentic, affected, and above all, haole.

scholarly journals SQL Query Construction from Ontology Concept Descriptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Henrihs Gorskis
Keyword(s):  
Domain Ontology ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Ontology Concept ◽  
Sql Query ◽  
Mapping Point ◽  
Domain Concept ◽  
Selection Of

Based on the usage of previously proposed database concepts as mapping point to a database in a domain ontology, the present paper describes the process of constructing SQL queries from them. The proposed database concepts allow for the mapping of domain concept to the source of data from a database. The paper describes the process of traversing the class hierarchy in an ontology for gathering these database concepts and constructing the SQL query. The purpose of the constructed SQL query is to obtain data from a database to populate the ontology with instances related to a selected ontology concept. The described process begins with the selection of one ontology concept, obtaining all directly related concepts, filtering and collecting database concepts, and finally constructing the SQL query.

Final Remarks for the Investigation in Ontology in IS and Possible Future Directions

2017 ◽  
pp. 585-589
Author(s):  
Ahlam F. Sawsaa ◽  
Joan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Archival Science ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Computing Science ◽  
Science Domain ◽  
Constant Improvement

This study is concluded in this chapter. The research problem and questions derived from it are answered. In addition, the achievements and the limitations of this study are discussed. The research started with identifying the problem. To achieve these objectives, the OIS was designed and developed. Feedback and evaluation from the domain's experts has led to constant improvement in the ontology's development. The current version of the OIS ontology is presented in this research. At the end of this chapter, possible research leads for the future are suggested. The study aimed at the creation of OIS ontology of Information Science domain to visualise its knowledge, in order to be integrated with other ontologies to be applied for a specific application. The resulting ontology covers three main areas of domain knowledge: library science, archival science and computing science. The vocabularies of these branches are formalised in class hierarchy with relations which are interconnecting concepts from all these areas, in order to define a sufficient model of the Information Science domain.

An Ostensibly Raceless Nation

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-112
Author(s):  
Hugo Cerón-Anaya
Keyword(s):  
Middle Part ◽  
Class Hierarchy ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Class System ◽  
Wide Range

Chapter 4 presents the thesis of the racialization of class, arguing that racial understandings are deeply interconnected to class principles. The analysis starts by showing how despite the assumption that mestizaje eradicated all racial ideas, people employ a wide range of racialized notions in everyday interactions. Second, it shows how the class system deeply influences these racial ideas. This argument does not assume that the wealthier the person, the whiter they are perceived to be. Instead, it is explained why racial notions change from more fluid cultural assumptions at the bottom and middle part of the class hierarchy to more rigid biological views at the top of the socioeconomic order. The transformation is linked to both the changing nature of capital and the phenotypical composition of the upper classes. The chapter ends by using a series of concrete ethnographic examples to illustrate the argument of the racialization of class.

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