The revision of the sarcophagid species Lepidodexia (Orosarcophaga) ornata (Townsend, 1927) reveals its identity and a generic synonym. male terminalia this was studied in detail for first time revealed congeneric affinities with Oxyvinia Dodge, 1966. Consequently, status Orosarcophaga Townsend, 1927 revalidated, including 1966 as junior synonym, O. corroborated valid name. Moreover, we provide...

Citharoceps Chamberlin was diagnosed by the presence of a very distinctive stridulatory apparatus composed of two patches of ridges on the sides of the cephalic region, and a stridulatory thorn on the prolateral region of the femur I. Currently, this genus is a junior synonym of Ariadna Audouin, with the assumption that the stridulatory apparatus could constitute an exclusive feature of its uni...

Many researchers have assumed that different methods could be substituted to measure the same attributes in assessment. Various models have been developed to accommodate the amount of variance attributable to the methods but these models application in empirical research is rare. The present study applied one of those models to examine whether method effects were presents in synonym and antonym...

In three experiments, the influence of failure and success on persistent automatic vigilance task-related information was investigated. Participants first had to work on a series of synonym selection problems for which negative and positive feedback was given independently of their performance. In the second part of the experiments, words from the synonym selection problems were presented as di...

The genus Medmassa Simon, 1887 is revised in the Afrotropical Region. The type species is M. frenata (Simon, 1887) from the Philippines, described from a subadult female. The widespread, but previously poorly known M. semiaurantiaca Simon, 1910, appears to be the only congeneric Afrotropical species. It is redescribed, illustrated for the first time, and proposed as a senior synonym of M. hieka...

Semantic search is a form of search that goes beyond keyword-based searching. Searching based on keywords typically has several disadvantages including homonym and synonym problems which can reduce the retrieval effectiveness of a search system. Ontology-based search is a form of semantic search that can be applied to searching structured data, i.e. RDF data, which are exported from relational ...

We describe various syntactic and semantic conditions for finding abstract nouns which refer to concepts of adjectives from a text, in an attempt to explore the creation of a thesaurus from text. Depending on usages, six kinds of syntactic patterns are shown. In the syntactic and semantic conditions an omission of an abstract noun is mainly used, but in addition, various linguistic clues are ne...

Collocations constitute an important type of syntagmatic information whose introduction into WordNets has not yet been addressed. The goal of our work is the integration of the collocational material for the field of emotion nouns encoded in the DIccionario de colocaciones del español (DICE) in terms of Lexical Functions into the Spanish part of the EuroWordNet (SpEWN). Two features of collocat...

WordNet is a large lexical resource expressing distinct concepts in a language. Synset is a basic building block of the WordNet. In this paper, we introduce a web based lexicographer's interface ‘Synskarta’ which is developed to create synsets from source language to target language with special reference to Sanskrit WordNet. We focus on introduction and implementation of Synskarta and how it c...

In this paper, we report our methods and results of using, for the first time, semi-automatic approach to enhance an Indian language Wordnet. We apply our methods to enhancing an already existing Sanskrit Wordnet created from Hindi Wordnet (which is created from Princeton Wordnet) using expansion approach. We base our experiment on an existing bilingual Sanskrit English Dictionary and show how ...