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Towards Culturally-Situated Agent Which Can Detect Cultural Differences

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Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2007)

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A method to calculate the semantic dissimilarity in two countries’ pictogram interpretations is proposed. Two countries’ pictogram interpretation words are mapped to SUMO classes via WordNet2SUMO. Appropriate concept weights are assigned to SUMO classes using the interpretation ratios. The edges between the two SUMO classes are counted to obtain the path length of the two classes. Three bipartite graphs are generated using the classes and edges to calculate the between-country vs. within-country dissimilarity in pictogram interpretations. Preliminary result showed that human assessment of interpretation dissimilarity does not always correspond to concept-level dissimilarity in the ontology.

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  1. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Heeryon Cho & Toru Ishida

  2. Media Interaction Principle Open Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan

    Naomi Yamashita

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  1. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Wollongong, Australia

    Aditya Ghose

  2. National ICT Australia, Queensland Research Laboratory, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Guido Governatori

  3. Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Ramakoti Sadananda

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Cho, H., Yamashita, N., Ishida, T. (2009). Towards Culturally-Situated Agent Which Can Detect Cultural Differences. In: Ghose, A., Governatori, G., Sadananda, R. (eds) Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01639-4_47

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