Diachronic semantics has long been the stepchild of Spanish (and Romance) historical linguistics. Although many studies have examined (often in searching detail) the semantic evolution of individual lexical items, Hispanists have ignored broader patterns of semantic change and the relevant theoretical and methodological issues posed by this phenomenon. Working within the framework of cognitive ...

English. We present a method to explore semantic change as a function of variation in distributional semantic spaces. In this paper we apply this approach to automatically identify the areas of semantic change in the lexicon of Ancient Greek between the pre-Christian and Christian era. Distributional Semantic Models are used to identify meaningful clusters and patterns of semantic shift within ...

Semantic service discovery is necessary to facilitate the potential of service providers (many sensors, different characteristics) to change the sensor configuration in a generic surveillance application without modifications to the application’s business logic. To combine efficiency and flexibility, semantic annotation of sensors and semantic aware match making components are needed. This shor...

An object-oriented model of semantic social networks is proposed and formally analyzed. Methods for project, role, and team management based on the semantic model are defined and implemented in niKlas, a semantic wiki language based on frame logic developed by the author. The new approach to semantic social networks allows dynamic change of social network semantics and the establishment of the ...

Schema Modification Management (SMM) is concerned about how schema changes should affect the object base in order to make database objects be compatible with specifications after change. However, a particular problem with existing SMM approaches is the lack of concern for schema-level changes (which may involve multiple classes), or semantic dependencies which applies between non-consecutive ve...

Objectives: Wernicke’s aphasia is one of the most prominent focal brain deficits affecting the comprehension abilities of patients while preserving their production abilities. Although a lot of studies in different languages have been conducted to analyze the nature of this deficit, still some controversies exist in this regard. While some research studies attribute this defect to a performance...

In this paper we try to unify the frameworks of definitions of semantic security, indistinguishability and non-malleability by defining semantic security in comparison based framework. This facilitates the study of relations among these goals against different attack models and makes the proof of the equivalence of semantic security and indistinguishability easier and more understandable. Besid...

DSMW is an extension to Semantic Mediawiki (SMW), it allows to create a network of SMW servers that share common semantic wiki pages. DSMW users can create communication channels between servers and use a publish-subscribe approach to manage the change propagation. DSMW synchronizes concurrent updates of shared semantic pages to ensure their consistency. It offers new collaboration modes to sem...