semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...

Seven groups participated in the STEP 2008 shared task on comparing semantic representations as output by practical wide-coverage NLP systems. Each of this groups developed their own system for producing semantic representations for texts, each in their own semantic formalism. Each group was requested to provide a short sample text, producing a shared task set of seven texts, allowing participa...

This study investigates the effects of teaching semantic radicals in inferring the meanings of unfamiliar characters among nonnative Chinese speakers. A total of 54 undergraduates majoring in Chinese Language from a university in Hanoi, Vietnam, who had 1 year of learning experience in Chinese were assigned to two experimental groups that received instructional intervention, called "old-for-new...

Objectives: Wernicke’s aphasia is one of the most prominent focal brain deficits affecting the comprehension abilities of patients while preserving their production abilities. Although a lot of studies in different languages have been conducted to analyze the nature of this deficit, still some controversies exist in this regard. While some research studies attribute this defect to a performance...

in this paper, the performance of 11 different distances for image retrieval and classification, based on color, shape and texture, is evaluated. the precision-recall measure and the correct classification rate of the k-nn classifier are used to evaluate retrieval and classification performances, respectively. the experimental results for a database of 1000 images from 10 different semantic gro...

Patients increasingly interact in support groups, which provide shared information and experiences about diseases, treatments, etc. Much of this interaction is mediated by the Social Web, allowing worldwide reach but lacking in semantic precision. We present an online prototype, PatientSupporter, to create a Social Semantic Subweb that will facilitate high-precision networking between patients ...