Simple sequence repeat (SSR markers or microsatellites), based on the specific PCR amplification of DNA sequences, are becoming the markers of choice for molecular characterization of a wide range of plants because of their high polymorphism, abundance, and codominant inheritance. Different methods have been used for the analysis of the SSR amplified fragments being submarine agarose electropho...

Semantic maps ensure a high potential to facilitate enhanced quality of understanding words. ESL students are often presented with new English vocabulary items that many times pre-organized in sets semantically related Although there is an assumption word grouping facilitates the activities for learning, little or no empirical justification offered by researchers support employing this teaching...

We suggest a model for metaphor interpretation using word embeddings trained over relatively large corpus. Our system handles nominal metaphors, like time is money. It generates ranked list of potential interpretations given metaphors. Candidate meanings are drawn from collocations the topic (time) and vehicle (money) components, automatically extracted dependency-parsed explore adding candidat...

This paper presents a unified approach to Chinese statistical language modeling (SLM). Applying SLM techniques like trigrams to Chinese is challenging because (1) there is no standard definition of words in Chinese, (2) word boundaries are not marked by spaces, and (3) there is a dearth of training data. Our unified approach automatically and consistently gathers a highquality training data set...

In the traditional view, the lexicon is a storage area for all and only the content words or morphemes of a language. The lexicon is relatively static compared to the grammar, which contains all the moving parts of sentence generation: in the metaphor of a dictionary, lexical items are just passive items on a list which wait to be recruited into syntactic structures. In this conception also, me...

This paper presents a web platform with an its own graphic environment to visualize and filter multilevel phonetic annotations. The tool accepts as input Annotation Graph XML and Praat TextGrids files and converts these files into a specific XML format. XML output is used to browse data by means of a web tool using a visualization metaphor, namely a timeline. A timeline is a graphical represent...