A secondary homonymy is documented for Gelasimus [= Uca] tetragonon var. spinicarpa Kossmann, 1877 (a species from the Red Sea), and Uca spinicarpa Rathbun, 1900 (a species from the Gulf of Mexico). Although Kossmann's usage of the nomen spinicarpa has chronological priority, a reversal of precedence is required by Article 23.9 of the Code since Kossmann's use has not been applied as a valid na...

The fossil genus Ironella Starostina & Krasnov (type species I. giseldonensis by original designation) was established (in Krasnov & Starostina 1970: 79) for distinctive scleractinian corals from Northern Caucasus of Russia (Northern Ossetia). However, Ironella Cobb (1920: 277), a living nematode (Adenophorea: Enoplida: Ironidae), preceded the fossil coral name, which becomes a preoccupied late...

This paper presents an algorithm for finding systematic polysemous classes in WordNet and similar semantic databases, based on a definition in (Apresjan 1973). The introduction of systematic polysemous classes can reduce the amount of lexical semantic processing, because the number of disambiguation decisions can be restricted more clearly to those cases that involve real ambiguity (homonymy). ...

Recently, we completed a revision of the Termitidae from New Guinea and neighboring islands, recording a total of 45 species. Here, we revise a second family, the Rhinotermitidae, to progress towards a full picture of the termite diversity in New Guinea. Altogether, 6 genera and 15 species are recorded, among which two species, Coptotermes gambrinus and Parrhinotermes barbatus, are new to scien...

Human languages are naturally ambiguous, which makes it difficult to automatically understand the semantics of text. Most vector space models (VSM) treat all occurrences of a word as the same and build a single vector to represent the meaning of a word, which fails to capture any ambiguity. We present sense-aware semantic analysis (SaSA), a multi-prototype VSM for word representation based on W...

A terminology represents the comprehensive list of concepts used in a particular subject area, their definitions, and terms viz. the names used in order to denote the concepts in a given language. Terminology work includes the creation and maintenance of terminologies. Our goal has been to provide a method to construct terminologies as ontological foundations for integrating information systems...

Recently there has been a growing interest in the properties and formal analysis of multi-agent systems bootstrapping a communication system (see e.g. .(Baronchelli et al., 2005) and the contribution of (De Vylder and Tuyls, 2005), this workshop.) Although very interesting and promising results were obtained in these studies, major simplifications were made. For example, although much larger po...

The cultivated grapevine, Vitis vinifera subsp. L., is represented by an enormous population of varieties and clones. They arise from the accumulation gametic somatic mutations during centuries sexual asexual propagation. These represent a vast reservoir traits/alleles that could be useful in improving berry quality as well against environmental stresses. However, most them are still unexploite...

The paper studies the grammar features that characterize Moscow revision of Book Needs (Trebnik), composed under patriarch Nikon (1658). research is based on a comparison Nikon’s and Peter Mogila’s (1646) Trebniks. study confirmed scientific statement Nikonian editors revised Trebnik in accordance with recommendations edition M. Smotritsky’s Grammar. This shown, for example, use certain endings...

Polysemy is an essential linguistic process that occurs intensively in language. It plays a significant role creating phraseological combinations and generating various semantic changes the should be distinguished from eurysemy (lexical broadness) homonymy. eurythmy language speech reveal some common properties; however, they are essentially different phenomena. In Eurysemy, word's meaning real...