The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement which promotes common data formats on the World Wide Web and aims to convert the currently unstructured and semi-structured documents on the web into a “web of data” by encouraging the inclusion of semantic content (metadata) in web pages. [7] Not only does the Semantic Web need access to data, but relationships among data should be made available, t...

Mobile devices leave a huge number of digital traces that are collected as trajectories, describing the movement of its users or a path followed by any moving object in geographical space over some period of time. However, those mobile devices provide just raw trajectories (x, y, t), ignoring information about their related contextual data, these additional data contribute in producing signific...

Due to the increasing complexity of data warehouses , a centralized and declarative management of metadata is essential for data warehouse administration, maintenance and usage. Metadata are usually divided into technical and semantic metadata. Typically, current approaches only support subsets of these metadata types, such as data movement meta-data or multidimensional metadata for OLAP. In pa...

Lexical compounds in English are constrained in that the non-head noun can be an irregular but not a regular plural (e.g. mice eater vs. *rats eater), a contrast that has been argued to derive from a morphological constraint on modifiers inside compounds. In addition, bare nouns are preferred over plural forms inside compounds (e.g. mouse eater vs. mice eater), a contrast that has been ascribed...

Today’s large and high-resolution displays coupled with powerful graphics hardware offer the potential for highly realistic 3D virtual environments, but also cause increased target acquisition difficulty for users interacting with these environments. We present an adaptation of semantic pointing to object picking in 3D environments. Essentially, semantic picking shrinks empty space and expands ...

This paper aims at designing a possible path of convergence between the Open Access and the Semantic Web communities. In section 2, it focuses on the problems that the current Web has to face to become a fully effective research means, with particular regard to the question of selection according to subjective quality criteria. Section 3 exposes the main principles and standards which lie behin...

The primary proposal of this thesis that in questions, a “Q” morpheme must undergo syntactic movement from a clause-internal position to a clause-peripheral position. Throughout this thesis, we develop a syntactic analysis and a semantic formalism for questions that accounts for the facts observed in wh-in-situ languages (focusing mainly on Japanese, Sinhala, Shuri Okinawan, and premodern Japan...

Eye-tracking methodology was used to examine the hypothesis that prosody contributes to integrative processing because it conveys the structure of the sentence, and therefore violating the correspondence between prosody and structure should result in difficulty in processing. Previous eye-movement studies indicate that subject-predicate mismatching (e.g., the boys eats) results in prolonged gaz...

An eye-movement-contingent display change technique was employed to study whether adult readers extract semantic information from parafoveal words during reading. Three types of parafoveal preview conditions were contrasted: an emotional word, a neutral word, and an identical word condition. To have a maximally effective parafoveal manipulation, high-arousal emotional words (sex- and threat-rel...

The eventuality of the Semantic Web offers multiple attractive features to the enterprise infrastructure in the area of improved Knowledge Management and information retrieval. Current relational database models adequately perform in the transactional processing of operational data, but do little toward the advancement of knowledge foundations for innovation. The movement from an information ec...