Conceptual knowledge bases are core components of curlgnt natural language semantic information processing systems. Their coment, structure and size crucially determines the applicability of these systems, and still their development and maintenance is a serious bottleneck. Taking into account the enormous amount of entries required for practical purposes, manual modelling procedures are hardly...

Applications utilising the Semantic Web are currently developed mostly on a case-bycase basis, although they share common capabilities and architectures. In contrast, the implementation of Web applications is supported by a wide range of mature frameworks, which provide the infrastructure for the applications in the form of libraries and components. The components in turn are based on software ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether ERP components can differentiate between the semantic priming mechanisms of automatic spreading activation, expectancy, and semantic matching. METHODS The present study manipulated two factors known to differentiate semantic priming mechanisms: associations between words (forward, backward, and symmetrical) and prime-target stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA). Twent...

Argument Realization presents a thorough survey of current theories that deal with the relationship between verbs and their arguments. It addresses the problem of argument realization in its many aspects such as semantic roles, lexical semantic representation, conceptualizations of events, thematic hierarchies, and verb alternations. This is a linguistics book and therefore geared toward resear...