This paper presents a method and implementation resuits for the transformation of WordNet glosses into logic forms. The glosses, currently expressed in English are a rich source of world knowledge. Logic forms are useful for logic proofs, inference, and many other AI applications. We demonstrate their applicability to a Question Answering system.

The project presented in this article aims to formalize criteria and procedures in order to extract semantic information from parsed dictionary glosses. The actual purpose of the project is the generation of a semantic network (nearly an ontology) issued from a monolingual dictionary, through unsupervised procedures. Since the project involves rule-based Parsing, Semantic Tagging and Word Sense...

The present study examined the effect of multimedia glosses on foreign language listening comprehension. To this end, 94 male students studying at Rasa English Institute in Tehran were selected for the treatment. The participants consisted of three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the following treatment conditions: textual, pictorial, and textual-pictorial glossing....

Entre 1382 i 1409, el frare dominicà Joan Romeu va traduir Commentarium in septem psalmos poenitentiales d’Innocenci III, per encàrrec del mestre de l’Orde Montesa Berenguer March. La versió té una gran qualitat, tot les dificultats text d’Innocenci. Per donar context a la traducció, en aquest article s’analitzen vida l’obra biografia perfil intel·lectual l’entorn familiar que es conserva manus...

Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen. Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the content, prompting the need for indexing or annotating them with a common controlled vocabulary or ontology. In this paper, we investig...

In this paper, a comparative experimental assessment of computer vision-based methods for sign language recognition is conducted. By implementing the most recent deep neural network in field, thorough evaluation on multiple publicly available datasets performed. The aim present study to provide insights recognition, focusing mapping non-segmented video streams glosses. For task, two new sequenc...

however, necessary to point out that Guillermand's discussion of eighteenth-century military medicine is largely confined to bureaucratic developments within France, and that even here his description of the shortcomings in the care of the sick and wounded in the Seven Years War (p. 422) glosses over the abominable mismanagement that killed off forty out of every hundred soldiers admitted to ho...