The efficient Semantic Web, needs knowledge to be presented in a well defined form which enables people and software agents to understand it. There are many knowledge representation techniques such as rules, frames, scripts, semantic network and ontology. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the difference between semantic network and ontology techniques for medical knowledge representati...

Although words for human body parts appear early in children's vocabulary, relatively little is known about the conceptual and semantic development related to part preschool school ages. In this paper, we examine how children at ages 5, 7 9 use expressions refer its parts, these correspond segmentation lexicalization of terms adults. Participants were asked name that depicted drawings showing w...

The question of how meaning might be acquired by young children and represented by adult speakers of a language is one of the most debated topics in cognitive science. Existing semantic representation models are primarily amodal based on information provided by the linguistic input despite ample evidence indicating that the cognitive system is also sensitive to perceptual information. In this w...

This paper claims that the vagueness inherent in gradable adjectives is a reflection of an independently-motivated, underlying measurement mechanism, called the analog magnitude system (AMS). The AMS is a language external system that can be called on to help verify sentences. Differences between positive forms of gradable adjectives like tall (1) and their comparative forms (2), in terms of va...