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- Knowledge based community management in the construction industryPublication . Moreira Silva, Manuel; Lucas Soares, António; Simões, Dora; Costa, RuteBuilding and construction companies have to continuously renew their working habits in order to face an increasing competitive environment where flexibility and adaptability to change are the obliged route to success. As Ceton (2000) states, the increasingly widespread use of computers only serves, as it is generally recognized, to highlight the fragmented way that building projects are commenced, designs created and realized, construction carried through to completion, and buildings maintained, renovated, and ultimately demolished. All too often lost information and miscommunication complicate these operations.
- Assessing assessmentPublication . Peres, Paula; Silva, Manuel; Tavares, CéliaIn the online environments some case studies we’ve developed and day-to-day experience have shown that, several times, online learning activities are promoted without considering the assessment of cognitive results that derive from those activities. Engaging students appears as the main justification. And when students’ involvement is not what it was expected? Should a student be penalized by not being a part of an online activity? Isn’t he/she also participating with the silent follow up that he/she chooses to do? Isn’t he/she learning? In the teacher’s point of view, the analysis of each of the students’ interventions may be a hard and time consuming task, especially in large classes. On the other hand, an automated process of the students’ interventions may be overrated in messages of social nature that show little cognitive activity. This context led to a study that aims to determine which are the most suitable activities for the learning process and objectives assessment. The research led into an innovative assessment model that seeks an alignment between objectives, softskills, assessment, content and other variables. The model that we suggest describes a solution for the elaboration of assessment questions by nature and expected results. It also suggests online activities that, for their innovative character, seek the students’ engagement, the objectives accomplishment and the balance between the teachers pedagogical, managerial, social and technical dimensions.
- Role of intercultural mediation in problem solving in a transatlantic networkPublication . Ribeiro, Sandra; Noronha Cunha, Suzana; Moreira Silva, Manuel; Bigotte Chorão, GraçaWorking in a multidisciplinary collaborative project through virtual exchange encompasses many advantages as well as some disadvantages. One of the many problems that might occur in virtual cooperation settings was identified as cultural mismatches, listed by Chase, Macfadyen, Reeder, and Roche (2002) into nine categories. Some of these mismatches were found during the Trans-Atlantic Pacific Project1 (TAPP), a collaborative and active learning bidirectional platform, where students from Portuguese and North American universities have been cooperating for several years to enhance their technical and linguistic competences whilst developing intercultural skills. By bringing together future Translators and Technical Writers into a multicultural simulated setting, students are given the opportunity to learn from each other and interact via technology-mediated communication. Yet, this endeavour revealed to be extremely demanding mostly due to cultural misunderstandings that occurred during virtual communication exchanges. Accordingly, a cultural mediation intervention plan was developed and implemented by the authors as a strategy to overcome these problems and strengthen virtual teamwork interaction. This plan was designed to raise cultural awareness of the self and the other and was divided into 4 separate phases: 1) the cultural awareness initial stage, followed by 2) peer-to-peer exchange of the pre-learning questionnaires, 3) the completion of the Cultural Self-Awareness Questionnaire, concluding with 4) the analysis of the results and discussion in class. This study addresses the Cultural Self-Awareness Questionnaire. The results and outcomes of this questionnaire are analysed and discussed and new avenues for research will be presented and proposed.
- Exploring the Iinnovative aspects of CV distributed ledgers based on blockchainPublication . Silva, F. O.; Pereira, Rui Humberto; Gonçalves, Maria José Angélico; Silva, Amélia Ferreira Da; Moreira Silva, ManuelBlockchain is a distributed ledger technology aimed at decentralization and transparency. A blockchain record is immutable, which means that once created by an entity, no other can change what enables legitimacy checking. These are key features to ensure the accuracy of records with sensitive information such as the issuance of records of competencies and qualification certificates when issued by certified entities (education institutions, professional formation schools, companies, etc.). This paper aims to identify the most innovative aspects in CV records management systems based on a blockchain paradigm. In order to engage this objective, an assertive literature review of the CORDIS (The Community Research and Development Information Service (https://cordis.europa.eu/)) database was performed and discussed. The results are depicted and enable orientations to future work.
- EditorialPublication . Gonçalves, Maria José Angélico; Toledo de Sousa, Áurea Sousa; Moreira Silva, Manuel; Bon Vecchio, FabrizioOrganizado pelo Instituto Ibero-americano de Compliance(IIAC) e pelo Instituto Superior de Administração e Línguas (ISAL), o Congresso Luso-brasileiro de Gestão e Conformidade (CLBGC 2021) surgiu com o propósito de fomentar atualizações e perceções mais recentes e urgentes nas áreas de Gestão, Governança, Compliancee Conformidade, visando as melhores práticas para a mitigação de riscos, implementação de programas de conformidade e prevenção de crises. Pretendemos, com este evento, ter um panorama mais aprofundado do atual estado da arte dos temas sobre os quais os pesquisadores se debruçaram.
- Supporting collaboration in multilingual ontology specification: the conceptME approachPublication . Moreira Silva, Manuel; Soares, António Lucas; Costa, RuteDespite the availability of tools, resources and techniques aimed at the construction of ontological artifacts, developing a shared conceptualization of a given reality still raises questions about the principles and methods that support the initial phases of conceptualization. These questions become more complex when the conceptualization occurs in a multilingual setting. To tackle these issues a collaborative platform – conceptME - was developed where terminological and knowledge representation processes support domain experts throughout a conceptualization framework, allowing the inclusion of multilingual data to promote knowledge sharing and enhance conceptualization.
- Paradigm shift: From ePortfolios to PLEsPublication . Tavares, Célia; Oliveira, Luciana; Moreira Silva, ManuelA Personal Learning Environment (PLE) reflects, as a concept, the combination of the set of tools that we use around internet, helping to perceive what we are and what we learn. PLEs are able to bring together all learning experiences acquired in different contexts and mix those experiences in order to reflect ones knowledge. This paper aims at analyzing and exploring the advantages of a PLE, focusing specially on the use of ePortfolios in this context, by considering different approaches and exploring the relationship between the development of an e-portfolio and the students learning styles and multiple intelligences. This focus results from our perception that being aware of the students learning preferences is essential to enhance the quality of the teaching-learning environment, developing different kinds of activities and using different learning tools. In order to understand if and how those concepts (ePortfolios, learning styles and multiple intelligences) are related and to develop some understanding on an approach to correlate them, we have used some assessment tools and applied them in a case study in the area of translation and terminology leaning. The study, briefly described in this paper, has been a well succeeded one. However, we expect to foster further knowledge on the factors that should be changed during the teaching-learning process, by detecting and suggesting improvements. For that we will also reflect on what should be done to achieve better results when using ePortfolios, and consider other tools and approaches to enhance this process, such as social networks.
- Estruturação e representação gráfica de sistemas conceptuais. Uma abordagem no subdomínio da mortalidadePublication . Silva, ManuelEstruturação e representação gráfica de sistemas conceptuais. Uma abordagem no subdomínio da mortalidade
- Localização de ontologias - elementos para a construção de uma abordagemPublication . Silva, ManuelO desenvolvimento de recursos multilingues robustos para fazer face às exigências crescentes na complexidade dos processos intra e inter-organizacionais é um processo complexo que obriga a um aumento da qualidade nos modos de interacção e partilha dos recursos das organizações, através, por exemplo, de um maior envolvimento dos diferentes interlocutores em formas eficazes e inovadoras de colaboração. É um processo em que se identificam vários problemas e dificuldades, como sendo, no caso da criação de bases de dados lexicais multilingues, o desenvolvimento de uma arquitectura capaz de dar resposta a um conjunto vasto de questões linguísticas, como a polissemia, os padrões lexicais ou os equivalentes de tradução. Estas questões colocam-se na construção quer dos recursos terminológicos, quer de ontologias multilingues. No caso da construção de uma ontologia em diferentes línguas, processo no qual focalizaremos a nossa atenção, as questões e a complexidade aumentam, dado o tipo e propósitos do artefacto semântico, os elementos a localizar (conceitos e relações conceptuais) e o contexto em que o processo de localização ocorre. Pretendemos, assim, com este artigo, analisar o conceito e o processo de localização no contexto dos sistemas de gestão do conhecimento baseados em ontologias, tendo em atenção o papel central da terminologia no processo de localização, as diferentes abordagens e modelos propostos, bem como as ferramentas de base linguística que apoiam a implementação do processo. Procuraremos, finalmente, estabelecer alguns paralelismos entre o processo tradicional de localização e o processo de localização de ontologias, para melhor o situar e definir.
- A quest for the right word enhancing reflexivity and technology in terminology trainingPublication . Albuquerque, Alexandra; Silva, ManuelWhen it comes to translators training, the acquisition of indexing and terminological competences (both at retrieval and management stage) has a major role in the performance of future translators. A good terminological database, as a result of an accurate research, along with computer assisted translation tools (CAT tools) can improve translation’s speed and quality and also reduce revision costs, bringing in benefits for all the players in the translation industry: language service providers and clients. That process (analysis, selection, retrieval and storage of terminology) takes place mostly in the pretranslation stage, but underlies the whole translation work and can be a determining factor to the quality of the final product and to its homogeneity, especially when carried out in a collaborative environment. The development of terminological databases is an essential step in the training of translators and the efficient search for the right word a necessary skill in today's globalised translation market. Moreover being the quest for the right word almost entirely run over the Internet, data diversity can greatly increase the noise. This search poses several questions, mainly (1) how and where to retrieve information and (2) how to manage it efficiently, especially to students who are neither experts in terminology nor in translation. To ease some of these problems, students were assigned a project in terminology (a database) and, in order to accomplish it, both a Webquest and an ePortfolio were proposed as guidance tools. Along the process, students were expected to build up their thematic and communicative competence and, in parallel, widen their skills in computer-assisted translation tools as well as standard officeautomation software. This paper aims at discussing how these two tools helped students guide their research, structure the problem solving activities, develop critical thinking and terminological competencies.