Semantic representation and ease of predication.

Predicability (ease of predication) as semantic substrate of imageability in reading and retrieval.

It was proposed by Jones (1985) that the apparent influence of a word's imageability upon the probability of the word being read correctly by a deep dyslexic person could be understood in terms of an underlying semantic variable, ease of predication (also termed predicability). In a recent critique, de Mornay Davies and Funnell (2000) claim to have identified a number of problems with the ease ...

Predication Graphs as Canonical Representation of Query Sentences

This paper surveys problems encountered in studying the logico-semantic form and discourse problems of Finnish query sentences. W e ca ll the logico-semantic form a predication graph. The basic framework we use to represent the logica l form of Finnish query sentences is an annotated logical tree transformed from the dependency parse tree using graph transformations of the AWARE-system. Example...

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

A Joint Semantic Vector Representation Model for Text Clustering and Classification

Text clustering and classification are two main tasks of text mining. Feature selection plays the key role in the quality of the clustering and classification results. Although word-based features such as term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) vectors have been widely used in different applications, their shortcoming in capturing semantic concepts of text motivated researches to use...

Predication-based Semantic Indexing: Permutations as a Means to Encode Predications in Semantic Space

Corpus-derived distributional models of semantic distance between terms have proved useful in a number of applications. For both theoretical and practical reasons, it is desirable to extend these models to encode discrete concepts and the ways in which they are related to one another. In this paper, we present a novel vector space model that encodes semantic predications derived from MEDLINE by...