According  to  a  basic  prediction  made  by  the  Revised  Hierarchical  Model  (RHM),  at  early  stages  of language  acquisition,  strong  L2-L1  lexical  links  are  formed.  RHM  predicts  that  these  links  weaken with  increasing  proficiency,  although  they  do  not  disappear  even  at  higher  levels  of  language development. To test this prediction, two groups of highly proficie...

A hypermedia system is a network of nodes and links where nodes keep information and links make associations between relevant nodes. In a typical hypermedia system, authors need to create links manually which results in two problems: firstly, the system is passive; secondly, unlinked information is inaccessible. This inflexible behaviour restricts the usability of hypermedia systems and introdu...

In cognitive studies on metaphor, the elements and relations responsible for the linguistic instantiations of conceptual metaphors are investigated on the conceptual level of crossdomain mappings. Though the cognitive approach devises strategies to model the inference patterns necessary to understand metaphorical constructions, it has not devised machinery to model the links between metaphorica...

Massive amounts of data in social networks have made researchers look for ways to display a summary of the information provided and extract knowledge from them. One of the new approaches to describe knowledge of the social network is through a concise structure called conceptual view. In order to build this view, it is first needed to extract conceptual links from the intended network. However,...