PsychoNet 1 has demonstrated the feasibility of integrating psycholinguistic taxonomy, represented in LIWC, and its semantic textual representation in the form of commonsense ontology, represented in ConceptNet. However, various limitations exist in PsychoNet 1, including the lack of concluding context of the concept annotation. In this paper, we address most of those limitations and introduce ...

Despite its wide usage in biological databases and applications, the role of the gene ontology (GO) in network analysis is usually limited to functional annotation of genes or gene sets with auxiliary information on correlations ignored. Here, we report on new capabilities of VisANT--an integrative software platform for the visualization, mining, analysis and modeling of the biological networks...

Multimedia-based ontology construction and reasoning have recently been recognized as two important issues in video search, particularly for bridging semantic gap. The lack of coincidence between low-level features and user expectation makes conceptbased ontology reasoning an attractive mid-level framework for interpreting highlevel semantics. In this report, we propose a novel model, namely on...

Classifying video elements according to some pre-defined ontology of the video content is the typical way to perform video annotation. Ontologies are built by defining relationship between linguistic terms that describe domain concepts at different abstraction levels. Linguistic terms are appropriate to distinguish specific events and object categories but they are inadequate when they must des...

Increasingly, effort has been devoted to surveying ontology-related research studies from various aspects. However, no survey is available for the ontology library system. For this reason, we decided to examine existing library systems in this paper. First, we identified the main criteria (management, adaptation, and standardization) for evaluating the functionality of the library systems. Then...

We used transcriptomics to compare instinctive and learned, reward-based honey bee behaviors with similar spatio-temporal components: mating flights by males (drones) and time-trained foraging flights by females (workers), respectively. Genome-wide gene expression profiling via RNA sequencing was performed on the mushroom bodies, a region of the brain known for multi-modal sensory integration a...

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are high-level and should provide abstractions and notations for a better understanding and easier modeling of applications in a special domain. It is essential to combine different DSLs while modeling a complete system. Hence the question arises: How can we combine DSLs and in addition integrate their semantics and constraints? Based on a case study from an ind...

Classifying video elements according to some pre-defined ontology of the video content is the typical way to perform video annotation. Ontologies are built by defining relationship between linguistic terms that describe domain concepts at different abstraction levels. Linguistic terms are appropriate to distinguish specific events and object categories but they are inadequate when they must des...

In early Drosophila embryos, germ plasm is localized to the posterior pole region and is partitioned into the germline progenitors, known as pole cells. Germ plasm contains the maternal factors required for germline development. It has been proposed that germline-specific gene expression is initiated by the function of maternal factors that are enriched in the germ plasm. However, such factors ...