There is a numerous demand for a standard representation of the ubiquitous available information on the web. Developing an efficient algorithm for traversing large ontologies is a key challenge for many semantic web applications. This paper proposes spreading activation over ontology method based on bidirectional search technique in order to detect the relatedness between two human diseases. Th...

A developmental cascade model of autonomy and relatedness in the progression from parent to friend to romantic relationships across ages 13, 18, and 21 was examined among 184 adolescents (53% female, 58% Caucasian, 29% African American) recruited from a public middle school in Virginia. Parental psychological control at age 13 undermined the development of autonomy and relatedness, predicting r...

This study presents an evaluation of WordNet-based semantic similarity and relatedness measures in tasks focused on concept similarity. Assuming similarity as distinct from relatedness, the goal is to fill a gap within the current body of work in the evaluation of similarity and relatedness measures. Past studies have either focused entirely on relatedness or only evaluated judgments over words...

one of the most important issues in educational psychology is school engagement and academic achievement among students. based on self system model, a set of contextual factors (relations with teachers like perceived autonomy, structure, and involvement) through personal psychological characteristics (autonomy, relatedness, competence) is related to school engagement. the purpose of this study ...

Sentence comprehension involves timely computing different types of relations between its verbs and noun arguments, such as morphosyntactic, semantic, and thematic relations. Here, we used EEG technique to investigate the potential differences in thematic role computing and lexical-semantic relatedness processing during on-line sentence comprehension, and the interaction between these two types...

The measurement of semantic relatedness between two words is an important metric for many natural language processing applications. In this paper, we present a novel approach for measuring semantic relatedness that is based on a weighted semantic network. This approach explores the use of a lexicon, semantic relation types as weights, and word definitions as a basis to calculate semantic relate...

The paper presents an application of information content based metrics to compute semantic relatedness of word senses in German. The main contributions are: an annotation study based on a revised definition of semantic relatedness beyond synonymy, an extension of Resnik’s (1995) procedure for computing information content of concepts for strongly inflected languages, an application of informati...

Wikipedia provides an enormous amount of background knowledge to reason about the semantic relatedness between two entities. We propose Wikipedia-based Distributional Semantics for Entity Relatedness (DiSER), which represents the semantics of an entity by its distribution in the high dimensional concept space derived from Wikipedia. DiSER measures the semantic relatedness between two entities b...

A. (2012). Urban high-school girls sense of relatedness and their engagement in physical education. A sense of relatedness is individuals' views about themselves as connected to others and worthy of love and respect from others. Using the Self-System Model of Motivational Development as the framework, this study was designed to examine associations of urban high-school girls' relatedness toward...

Knowledge of relatedness between pairs of individuals plays an important role in many research areas including evolutionary biology, quantitative genetics, and conservation. Pairwise relatedness estimation methods based on genetic data from highly variable molecular markers are now used extensively as a substitute for pedigrees. Although the sampling variance of the estimators has been intensiv...