In Construction Morphology (CM), a compound is treated as a construction at the word level with a systematic correlation between its form and meaning, in the sense that any change in the form is accompanied by a change in the meaning. Compound words are coined by compounding templates which are called abstract schemas in CM. These abstract constructional schemas generalize over sets of existing...

Dance video is one of the important types of narrative videos with semantic rich content. This paper proposes a new meta model, Dance Video Content Model (DVCM) to represent the expressive semantics of the dance videos at multiple granularity levels. The DVCM is designed based on the concepts such as video, shot, segment, event and object, which are the components of MPEG-7 MDS. This paper intr...

Psychological analysis of language has repeatedly shown that an individual’s rate of mentioning 1st person singular pronouns predicts a wealth of important demographic and psychological factors. However, these analyses are performed out of context — syntactic and semantic — which may change the magnitude or even direction of such relationships. In this paper, we put “pronouns in their context”,...

The article provides an insight into a problem of lexical semantic change. A short historical outline of the development of semantic studies is given. The authors analyze some of the most important stages in the history of the formation of this field. The existing approaches to dealing with form and meaning, namely semasiological and onomasiological ones are discussed. The authors consider the ...

Extracting semantic relationships for entities in Web Integration Systems (WIS) is an important step for further analysis and decision-making tasks. For example, for a search query in WIS that contains a company name, we can not only return the descriptions of the company, but list companies that compete with it and also ones that cooperate with it. It is not rare that an entity pair has more t...

Web Integration System (WIS) provides abundant structured information about entities in a domain. Interrelationships for entities in WIS are valuable for further analysis and decision-making. It is not rare that an entity pair has more than one semantic relationship. However, existing researches on relation extraction ignore this situation and they assume that one entity pair has only one seman...

This paper investigates the relationship between the results of an extrinsic, taskbased evaluation of an NLG system and various metrics measuring both surface and deep semantic textual properties, including relevance. The latter rely heavily on domain knowledge. We show that they correlate systematically with some measures of performance. The core argument of this paper is that more domain know...