We examined the effect of spatial iconicity (a perceptual simulation of canonical locations of objects) and word-order frequency on language processing and episodic memory of orientation. Participants made speeded relatedness judgements to pairs of words presented in locations typical of their real-world arrangements (e.g., ceiling on top and floor on bottom). They then engaged in a surprise or...

this research titeled (semantic change in the quranic words: praise prophet reverence) this study is about how to transform from the meaning to another. in this article we looked lexical and semantic meaning of three words of quran in pre-islamic era until the end of sending quran. we studied the influence of islam in changing word semantically. islam does not bring new words but added them new...

1. In this paper we present methodological solutions that were proposed for maintaining knowledge attached to long term space missions and to scientific data. It turned out that the question of maintaining the intelligibility of the information processed, i.e. facing the semantic change issue, was closely associated to the knowledge preservation issue as its very motivation. This orientation ha...

The rapidly growing data on the web has created a big challenge for directing the user to the web pages in their areas of interest. Sentiment analysis or Opinion mining plays an important role in finding the area of interest based on user’s previous actions. Social networking portals have been widely used for expressing opinions in the public domain. Text based sentiment classifiers often prove...

The CCNU summarization system, PUSMS (Proceeding to Using Semantic Method for Summarization), join in TAC (formerly DUC) for the first time. For the update summarization tasks, we used syntacticbased anaphora resolution and sentence compression algorithms in our system. Term significance was then obtained by frequency-related topic significance and query-related significance by obtaining cooccu...

A metaschema is an Abstraction Network of the UMLS's Semantic Network (SN) obtained from a connected partition into its collections of semantic types. A metaschema can support comprehension, visualization and navigation of the SN. In this paper, a methodology is presented to evaluate and compare two given metaschemas, based on their structural properties. This methodology was applied to the top...

semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...

Arabic sentiment analysis is a process that aims to extract the subjective opinions of different users about subjects since these and sentiments are used recognize their perspectives judgments in particular domain. Few research studies addressed semantic-oriented approaches for based on domain ontologies features’ importance. In this paper, we built semantic orientation approach calculating ove...

Faces and bodies share a great number of semantic attributes, such as gender, emotional expressiveness, and identity. Recent studies demonstrate that bodies can activate and modulate face perception. However, the nature of the face representation that is activated by bodies remains unknown. In particular, face and body representations have previously been shown to have a degree of orientation s...