Measures of Semantic Relatedness are well established in Natural Language Processing. Their purpose is to determine the degree of relatedness between two words without specifying the nature of their relationship. Most of these measures work only between pairs of words in a single language. We propose a novel method of measuring semantic relatedness between pairs of words in two different langua...

The satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as defined in Self-Determination Theory, has been identified as an important predictor of individuals’ optimal functioning in various life domains. The study of work-related need satisfaction seems, however, hampered by the lack of a validated measure. To assist future research, the present study aimed ...

Morphological analysis as applied to English has generally involved the study of rules for inflections and derivations. Recent work has attempted to derive such rules from automatic analysis of corpora. Here we study similar issues, but in the context of the biological literature. We introduce a new approach which allows us to assign probabilities of the semantic relatedness of pairs of tokens ...

The logic S (Symmetric Propositional Relatedness Logic) was introduced in the late 1970s by Richard Epstein, and thoroughly studied over the subsequent decade by Epstein himself and his collaborators a clear outline of this work is presented in [2]. Epstein’s starting point was a semantical analysis of the concept of subject matter relatedness among propositions, which eventually led to an axio...

Background: Moral commitments of therapists is the important subject that attracted the attention of researches in the field of medical ethics. The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between basic psychological needs and moral identity among medical students. Method: The plan of this research is descriptive-correlation. Subjects were 140 medical interns of Shiraz Universi...

In social evolution theory, it has become common wisdom that close family ties should promote cooperative behaviour. Yet, in social insects, evidence is accumulating that queen promiscuity and low relatedness sometimes work better.

In line with previous work by Treisman, many studies have demonstrated effects of perceptual discrimination between visual targets and distractors. Few studies however have investigated semantic discrimination effects. We report the findings of two experiments that were carried out in order to demonstrate the influence of semantic relatedness between a target word and distractor words in intera...

Thanks to the idea of social collaboration, Wikipedia has accumulated vast amount of semistructured knowledge in which the link structure reflects human’s cognition on semantic relationship to some extent. In this paper, we proposed a novel method RCRank to jointly compute conceptconcept relatedness and concept-category relatedness base on the assumption that information carried in concept-conc...