In this paper we report the experiments for the CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD task, both for the monolingual (English) and the bilingual (Spanish to English) subtasks. Our main experimentation strategy consisted of expanding and translating the documents, based on the related concepts of the documents. For that purpose we applied a state-of-the art semantic relatedness method based on WordNet. The relat...

Roget’s Thesaurus has gone through many revisions since it was first published 150 years ago. But how do these revisions affect Roget’s usefulness for NLP? We examine the differences in content between the 1911 and 1987 versions of Roget’s, and we test both versions with each other and WordNet on problems such as synonym identification and word relatedness. We also present a novel method for me...

Linked Data brings inherent challenges in the way users and applications consume the available data. Users consuming Linked Data on the Web, should be able to search and query data spread over potentially large numbers of heterogeneous, complex and distributed datasets. Ideally, a query mechanism for Linked Data should abstract users from the representation of data. This work focuses on the inv...

The methods of inclusive fitness provide a powerful analysis of the action of selection on social behaviour. The key component of this analysis is the concept of relatedness R. In infinite populations, a standard method of calculating relatedness coefficients is through coefficients of consanguinity using the notion of genetic identity by descent. In this paper, we show that this approach can a...

A three-wave prospective design was used to assess a model of motivation guided by self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2008) spanning the contexts of school physical education (PE) and exercise. The outcome variables examined were health-related quality of life (HRQoL), physical self-concept (PSC), and 4 days of objectively assessed estimates of activity. Secondary school students (n = 494)...

In the past decade various semantic relatedness, similarity, and distance measures have been proposed which play a crucial role in many NLP-applications. Researchers compete for better algorithms (and resources to base the algorithms on), and often only few percentage points seem to suffice in order to prove a new measure (or resource) more accurate than an older one. However, it is still uncle...

In the current study we undertook a series of experiments to test the hypothesis that a monogenic cause of disease may be detectable within a cohort of Finnish young onset Parkinson's disease patients. In the first instance we performed standard genome wide association analyses, and subsequent risk profile analysis. In addition we performed a series of analyses that involved testing measures of...

An established firm can enter a new product market through acquisition or internal development. Predictions that the choice of market entry mode depends on ‘relatedness’ between the new product and the firm’s existing products have repeatedly failed to gain empirical support. We resolve ambiguity in prior work by developing dynamic measures of relatedness, and by making a distinction between en...