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Abstract: The paper considers a fundamental problem, namely, the problem of developing a Web knowledge base that would enable cross-lingual knowledge discovery in parallel corpora. Goal-oriented linguistic activities require advanced brainstorming technologies so as to assure new knowledge discovery, provided that asynchronous strategies are employed. The Web knowledge base would support asynchronous activities of its users who may happen to be distributed spatially and temporally. In the first part of the paper, we suggest a framework for such a base. Within this framework, asynchronous brainstorming is implemented by means of Web technologies and the base allows producing structured descriptions of new knowledge parts generated by all users. There are some specific original features that make the framework novel. For example, we consider Nakamori-Wierzbicki's creative space in terms of time, establishing a correspondence between asynchronous processes of knowledge creation and discrete points in time. Also, in contrast to Nakamori and Wierzbicki, the enlightenment transition from individual tacit to explicit knowledge is viewed here as a multiple-stage process, and not as a single-stage procedure. In the second part of the paper, we give concrete examples to show the feasibility of the proposed framework.
Keywords: asynchronous brainstorming, internet technologies, web knowledge base, knowledge discovery, cross-lingual knowledge, parallel corpus, emerging concepts
1.Introduction
Brainstorming has been applied for almost 63 years as a method to increase idea generation. Brainstorming, since its introduction in 1953, has been widely used in industry and business as a technique for problem solving (Stenmark, 2001). Electronic brainstorming (EBS) was introduced in the 1980s, with the hope of using computer-mediated electronic communication to improve group creativity. With EBS, group members communicate by exchanging typed messages instead of speaking verbally (Dennis and Williams, 2005; Liikkanen et al, 2011). EBS systems support synchronous and asynchronous brainstorming, which means that users do not have to be active simultaneously. This removes the temporal restriction (Stenmark, 2005).
Independently, parallel corpora have been used to promote creativity in linguistics since the end of the 20th century (Aijmer and Altenberg, 2013). Combining the methodological advantages of parallel corpus linguistics and EBS, comparing original texts and their translations would enable cross-lingual knowledge discovery in parallel corpora by users distributed spatially and temporally.
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