Ten models are compared in their ability to predict eye-tracking data that was collected from 49 participants’ goal-oriented search tasks on a total of 1809 Web pages. Forming the basis of six of these models, three semantic models and two corpus types are compared as components for the Semantic Fields model (Stone and Dennis, 2007) that estimates the semantic salience of different areas displa...

People like services that can help them undertake their daily activities more efficiently. Mobile technologies have enabled deployment of a variety of Internet–based services within the realm of location-based services (LBS) (Steiniger, Neun, and Edwardes 2006). The adoption of these technologies has led to mammoth amounts of trajectory data. To use these services effectively, analysis of LBS d...

The goal of this thesis is to account for distributional patterns of given and new items in Czech, especially their word order. The system proposed here has four basic components: (i) syntax, (ii) economy, (iii) interpretation, and (iv) reference set computation. The approach belongs to the family of interface driven approaches. The syntactic part of the thesis introduces a free syntactic movem...

This pa,per provides empirical support for the claim that predication created . by syntactic movement plays a role in syntactic computation. The proposal that every movement operation creates a predicate abstraCt over the target of movement was suggested by Heim and Kratzer (1998) in order to simplify the semantic component of the grammar. I show that it milo has empirical consequences. Specifi...

The article provides an insight into a problem of lexical semantic change. A short historical outline of the development of semantic studies is given. The authors analyze some of the most important stages in the history of the formation of this field. The existing approaches to dealing with form and meaning, namely semasiological and onomasiological ones are discussed. The authors consider the ...

Introduction NPs like other constituents generally have syntactic functions that are associated with specific interpretations. They may not only have one such semantically relevant syntactic function, but also a combination of them. Syntacticians have traditionally directed their attention to only a certain number of semantically relevant syntactic functions of NPs, in particular to the status ...

Social networks are a popular movement on the web. Trust can be used effectively on the Semantic Web as annotations to social relationships. In this paper, we present a two level approach to integrating trust, provenance, and annotations in Semantic Web systems. We describe an algorithm for inferring trust relationships using provenance information and trust annotations in Semantic Web-based so...

Social networks are a popular movement on the web. On the Semantic Web, it is simple to make trust annotations to social relationships. In this paper, we present a two level approach to integrating trust, provenance, and annotations in Semantic Web systems. We describe an algorithm for inferring trust relationships using provenance information and trust annotations in Semantic Web-based social ...