Semantic maps are usually assumed to describe a universal arrangement of different conceptual situations in a speaker's mind as determined by perceived relations of similarity between these conceptual situations. This paper provides a number of arguments that challenge this view, based on various types of evidence from processes of semantic change and synchronic implicational universals. The mu...

Due to the semantic gap, the low-level features are unsatisfactory for object categorization. Besides, the use of semantic related image representation may not be able to cope with large inter-class variations and is not very robust to noise. To solve these problems, in this paper, we propose a novel object categorization method by using the sub-semantic space based image representation. First,...

In this paper, I would like to propose an idea of semantics for discourse and pictorial representations. The central notion of this paper is function. A representation is a representation of something. A function determines the connection between representation and what is represented. This is true for both discourse and pictorial representations. To properly interpret a representation system m...

OBJECTIVE To semi-automatically induce semantic categories of eligibility criteria from text and to automatically classify eligibility criteria based on their semantic similarity. DESIGN The UMLS semantic types and a set of previously developed semantic preference rules were utilized to create an unambiguous semantic feature representation to induce eligibility criteria categories through hie...

----------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------This review paper presents a study about to create qualitative VGI(volunteered geographic information) and its semantic web representation .Creation of VGI describes about to create ,use and share volumes of spatial data in an increasingly accessible fashion. This paper ...

TOOL PRESENTATION: The paper presents a semantic wiki, called Loki, with strong logical knowledge representation using rules. The system uses a coherent logic-based representation for semantic annotations of the content and implementing reasoning procedures. The representation uses the logic programming paradigm and the Prolog programming language. The proposed architecture allows for rule-base...

We describe a graphical logical form as a semantic representation for text understanding. This representation was designed to bridge the gap between highly expressive “deep” representations of logical forms and more shallow semantic encodings such as word senses and semantic relations. We also present an evaluation metric for the representation and report on the current performance on the TRIPS...