29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-PRICAI-20}; International audience; Bipolar argumentation studies argumentation graphs where attacks are combined with another ...

Abstract The Golo River drains a steep catchment (average gradient of 30 m km−1, surface of 1214 km2) in the northeast part of Corsica Island, delivering sediments to the Ligurian Sea. In this study, we review and revise the geologic map and constrain the extent of the ...

In Education in China, ca. 1840–present Meimei Wang, Bas van Leeuwen and Jieli Li offer a description of the transformation of the Chinese education system from the traditional Confucian teaching system to a modern mode. In doing so, they touch on various debates about ...

For centuries the Christian church has wrestled with the question, “How must the Christian’s activity relate to the surrounding culture?” While answers abound, this debate has only intensified over the past decade as a renewed interest in the Reformed “two kingdoms” (R2...

Latour encourages us to use science-in-the-making as an entry point to understanding science, because it allows us to see how scientific knowledge is constituted and through which processes the ‘absolute certainties’ of ready-made science appear. He approaches science-i...

Abstract: Natural disasters nearly always catch societies by surprise, even though in hindsight historians invariably conclude that being caught off-guard in this way was in fact unfounded as both the existence of the natural hazard which caused the disaster, and the so...

This dissertation investigates memorisation strategies that were employed in the fields of painting and calligraphy in imperial China, with a focus on the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Its core questions are: How do memory aids reflect the society tha...

In her prize-winning Islam Translated (2011) Ronit Ricci treats versions in different languages of a single text, the Book of One Thousand Questions, as “lenses” through which she examines “the intricate relationships between Islamization and literary and linguistic tra...

In this paper we investigate methods for improving the sentiment analysis functionality of Pattern.nl, the Dutch submodule of Pattern, an open-source library for web mining and natural language processing. We discuss the impact on performance of three different potentia...