Marphysa simplex is a name that three species bear within the same genus, but each has different authority and morphological characteristics. This homonymy condition leads to taxonomic confusion finite designation of name-bearing imperative. The current study focuses on two identified as M. Crossland, 1903 Treadwell, 1922 third one, recently considered secondary homonymy, (Langerhans, 1884), al...

The M.A. study reported here aimed at examining the processing of isolated lexically ambiguous words in L2 by fluent Polish-English bilinguals. Just as many people speak more then one language (Cook 2002: 22), most words prove to have more than one meaning or sense (Rodd er al. 2004: 90). Consequently, it appears crucial to add the ambiguity factor to the analysis of the lexicon. Indeed, a vari...

Ontologies and natural languages are complementary. Whereas ontologies are used to model knowledge formally, natural language is primarily used by users to communicate with ontology based systems. In order to transform information or queries in natural language into valid ontological expressions, the meaning of natural language entities have to be matched with the given ontologies. In contrast ...

The genus Kassinella was established by Keller (1960: 90) for extinct Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) corals from Kazakhstan. The name, however, is preoccupied by the senior homonym Kassinella Borissiak (1956: 50) (Brachiopoda), equally honouring N. G. Kassin, famous geologist and explorer of Kazakhstan. To resolve the homonymy, in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomencla...

In the article we present the comparison of the information retrieval approaches focused on a searching of specific concepts in a Natural Language part of Fire Service reports. The comparison comprise of searching with use of regular expressions, Latent Semantic Indexing and pre-defined set of search terms. As a case study we selected three concepts which may not be explicitly mentioned in repo...