Papers by Fernand Vandamme
Communication and Cognition. Monographies, 2004
Scientia paedagogica experimentalis, Mar 1, 2024
A central issue in education and learning is the transfer of knowledge, knowhow, intelligence bet... more A central issue in education and learning is the transfer of knowledge, knowhow, intelligence between generations. Another crucial aspect is the transfer of Wisdom. Both the transfer between generations, as well as the transfer of wisdom have in the last decennia be not planned and informal. Moreover the learning and education are adapted to the several age groups, but in general it is neglected for children that they have to learn already skills, knowhow which will keep to have crucial impact for their health and wellbeing when they have age 60 or 70: nestors… Most children will become nestors, if they can avoid to become victims of nuclear wars, genocides or other disasters. In view of the impact of AI, we need to reorient more and more the curriculum concerning the education and learning towards the neglected intergeneration transfer including the care for wisdom. We see today the rediscovery of wisdom. From the intergeneration perspective, we elaborate on topics as exercises, nutrition: gut microbiota, myokine, adipokines. Moreover we elaborate on the educational bridges between young people, children and the elderly (nestors aged 70 and more) taking into account their similarities and complementarities.
Philosophica, Jan 2, 1966
Philosophica, Jan 2, 1972
Philosophica, Jan 2, 1968
Very important points for the transformational grammar are (a) the conception that structural and... more Very important points for the transformational grammar are (a) the conception that structural and material aspects of the natural languages are innate and (b) the hypothesis of what aspects are innate. That this is the case can most clearly be seen in Chomsky's "Aspects of the theory of syntax" (chapter I, Methodological preliminaries) and his "Explanatory models in linguistics" and "Recent contributions to the theory of innate ideas" (1). In these works Chomsky sees the problem of language acquisition by the child -slightly simplified -as the problem of determining grammar G with the highest value, from the set of the transformational grammars G 1 ••• G n • This is -to his conception-done on the base of (A) a corpus of grammatical and non-grammatical utterances, (B) corrections which permit the determination of the utterances which are grammatical and the ones which are non-grammatical, (C) information on which utterances are repetitions and which aren't. The set of grammars G 1 ••• G n is not the set of all possible transformational grammars, but the set of the ones which have all the innate linguistic characteristics. As such all grammars G 1 ••• G n have an identical general form. As far as Chomsky is concerned, not only the general form but also the functions for evaluating, the several grammars G 1 ••• G n on the base of the data (A-C) are innate (2). (1) Chomsky, N., "Aspects ofthe theory of syntax", The M.LT. Press, Cambridge, 1965. "Explanatory Models in Linguistics", in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, ed. by E. Nagel, P. Suppes and A. Tarski, 1962. "Recent contributions of the theory of innate ideas", D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht-Holland, Synthese 17, 1967, pp. 2-11. (2) Chomsky, N., "Recent contributions of the theory of innate ideas", o. c., pp. 7-8. On a discussion about innateness of the evaluating function, see our article: "Is realisme economischer dan solipsisme? (Is realism a more economical theory than solipsism ?)", to appear in "Wetenschappelijke tijdingen".
Centrum voor de Studie van de Verlichting en van het Vrije Denken, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1983
Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with locating documents that are relevant for user's ... more Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with locating documents that are relevant for user's information need or query from large collection documents. Many techniques and tools have been developed to improve this process. One of these tools is thesaurus. This paper examines both early and current approaches to automatic thesaurus construction and describes approaches to the automatic generation of thesaurus. This paper will present a thesaurus construction system, referred to as Thesaurus Construction WorkBench (ThesWB), which can be used as a tool for users to build thesauri according to their own requirements. The main goal is to design a comprehensive thesaurus-building tool that can be used in any speciality field. The system must provide sufficient structure to represent different relationships among concepts and terms as well as to extract these relationships. In addition a thesaurus builder can also use different methods to extract terms and relation between them from do...
Communication and Cognition. Monographies, 2001
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