Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were ...

We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

The use of Ontologies to overcome the limitations of keyword-based search has been put forward as one of the motivations of the Semantic IR. We propose a model, which includes an ontology-based scheme for the automatic annotation of Tamil documents and a retrieval system. The retrieval model is based on an adaptation of the classic vector-space model, including an annotation weighting algorithm...

Documents written in natural languages constitute a major part of the software engineering lifecycle artifacts. Especially during software maintenance or reverse engineering, semantic information conveyed in these documents can provide important knowledge for the software engineer. In this paper, we present a text mining system capable of populating a software ontology with information detected...

Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Isaksen, Leif and Pelling, Chris (2013). Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea. In: The Bosporus: Gateway between the Ancient West and East (1st Millennium BC–5th Century AD) (Tsetskhladze, Gocha R.; Atasoy, Sümer; Avram, Alexandru; Donmez, Sevket and Hargrave, James eds.), BAR International S...

This work presents a software package ACT (Annotated Corpora of Text) for lexical and corpus processing of European written cultural sources (currently used for processing of mediaeval Slavonic manuscripts). I use ACT as a contribution towards a contextual and intelligent heritage Information Technology framework. The software is suitable for capturing characteristics of old written sources inc...

This paper reviews the different models commonly used in understanding Herodotus’evidence on Achaemenid Persian empire. It suggests that these approaches—for example, assessment of Herodotus’accuracy, level his knowledge, or sympathy for Persians—systematically underestimate complexity (and Greeks’) perspective empire: conflicted a participant rather than just detached observer.