Speciication and Underspeciication in Lexical Semantic Processing for Information Extraction

Developing a Semantic Similarity Judgment Test for Persian Action Verbs and Non-action Nouns in Patients With Brain Injury and Determining its Content Validity

Objective: Brain trauma evidences suggest that the two grammatical categories of noun and verb are processed in different regions of the brain due to differences in the complexity of grammatical and semantic information processing. Studies have shown that the verbs belonging to different semantic categories lead to neural activity in different areas of the brain, and action verb processing is r...

Presenting a method for extracting structured domain-dependent information from Farsi Web pages

Extracting structured information about entities from web texts is an important task in web mining, natural language processing, and information extraction. Information extraction is useful in many applications including search engines, question-answering systems, recommender systems, machine translation, etc. An information extraction system aims to identify the entities from the text and extr...

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

Running head: SEMANTIC PREVIEW BENEFITS IN CHINESE READING

Semantic processing from parafoveal words is an elusive phenomenon in alphabetic languages, but it has been demonstrated only for a restricted set of non-compound Chinese characters. Using the gaze contingent boundary paradigm, this experiment examined whether parafoveal lexical and sub-lexical semantic information was extracted from compound preview characters. Results generalized parafoveal s...

Protective Interface Speci cations 1

The interface speciication of a procedure describes the procedure's behavior using pre-and postconditions. These pre-and postconditions are written using various functions. If some of these functions are partial, or underspec-iied, then the procedure speciication may not be well-deened. We show how to write pre-and postcondition speciications that avoid such problems, by having the precondition...