The semantic interpretation of natural scenes, generally so obvious and effortless for humans, still remains a challenge in computer vision. We intend to design classifiers able to annotate images with keywords. Firstly, we propose an image representation appropriate for scene description: images are segmented into regions and indexed according to the presence of given region types. Secondly, w...

Multimedia documents constitute extremely rich information resources, whose efficacious management is intertwined with the effective capturing of the underlying semantics. The conveyed meaning may span along multiple levels and relates to search and retrieval tasks, much as to the very extraction and interpretation of content descriptions. In this chapter we consider the formal representation o...

The traditional framework ['or ambiguity resolution employs only 'static' knowledge, expressed generally as selectional restrictions or domain specific constraints, and makes uo use of any specific knowledge manipulation mechanisms apart from the simple ability to match valences of structurally related words. In contraust, this paper suggests how a theory of lexical semantics making use of a kn...

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American philosopher, novelist, and playwright, whose interpretation of ethical egoism is one of the most important interpretations of this theory.  Rand is a proponent of intellectual egoism, and rationalism is a fundamental element in her ethical theory. This article attempts to review, analyze, and criticize her interpretation of ethical egoism.   Additionally, an...

This paper is seeking to deal with studying the methods of employing traditions in ‘Al-Furghan Fi Tafsir Al-Quran Bel-Quran’ written by Ayatollah Muhammad Sadeghi Tehrani in a methodological approach. His method of interpretation is the Quran by the Quran. This method has been observed all over of this work. However, this method does not prevent employing traditions for understandin...