Despite showing an overtly simple structure, the semantic process in classic literary-narrative discourse conforms to complicated semiotic systems. As a result, semio-semantics is deemed as one of the most scientific, reliable tools since it helps intradiscursive semio-textual propositions be phenomenologically, and even epistemologically, analyzed. Consequently, the narrative discourse in “The...

Algorithms that find connections between concepts in semantic networks are inherently inefficient due to their dependence on piecemeal representation of potential paths. A method of reorganizing a link-based network into a path-based representation is argued to allow more efficient search techniques. A path-based representation is presented in terms of the knowledge representation language Conc...

development of pore network models for real porous media requires a detailed understanding of physical processes occurring on the microscopic scale and a complete description of porous media morphology. in this study, the microstructure of porous media has been represented by three dimensional networks of interconnected pores and throats which are designed by an object oriented approach. afterw...

We present a unified representational framework LSeN (Language to Semantic Network) for representing syntactic-semantic knowledge extracted from natural language (e.g. English) texts. Our representation is a variant of the standard semantic networks with some important distinctive features that facilitate bridging the interface between syntactic and semantic knowledge using automatic computatio...

Ontologies have been widely accepted as the most advanced knowledge representation model. This paper introduces PsychoNet, a new knowledgebase that forms the link between psycholinguistic taxonomy, existing in LIWC, and its semantic textual representation in the form of commonsense semantic ontology, represented by ConceptNet. The integration of LIWC and ConceptNet and the added functionalities...

In general, Policy-based approaches play an important role in the management of web services, for instance, in the choice of semantic web service and quality of services (QoS) in particular. The present research work illustrates a procedure for the web service selection among functionality similar web services based on WS-Policy semantic matching. In this study, the procedure of WS-Policy publi...

We introduce semantic flow graph (SFG), a novel graph representation and interaction framework that enables users to explore the relationships among key objects (i.e., streamlines, critical points, and spatial regions) of a 3D flow field. The objects and their relationships are organized as a heterogeneous network. We assign each object a set of attributes, based on which a semantic abstraction...

Objective: The Uniied Medical Language System (UMLS) designed by NLM combines many well established authoritative medical informatics terminologies in one knowledge representation system. Such a resource is very valuable to the healthcare community and industry. However, the UMLS is very large and complex and poses serious comprehension problems for users and maintenance personnel. We present a...

In traditional models of language production grammatical categories are represented as abstract features independent of semantics and phonology. An alternative view is proposed where syntactic categories emerge as a higher-order regularity from semantic and phonological properties of words. The proposal was tested using grammatical gender in Serbian, a south Slavic language with rich morphology...

This paper studies the abstractive multi-document summarization for event-oriented news texts through event information extraction and abstract representation. Fine-grained event mentions and semantic relations between them are extracted to build a unified and connected event semantic link network, an abstract representation of source texts. A network reduction algorithm is proposed to summariz...