To investigate the effect of semantic congruity on audiovisual target responses, participants detected a semantic concept that was embedded in a series of rapidly presented stimuli. The target concept appeared as a picture, an environmental sound, or both; and in bimodal trials, the audiovisual events were either consistent or inconsistent in their representation of a semantic concept. The resu...

In order to discuss ontology engineering environments, we first need to clarify what we mean by ontology engineering. Ontology engineering is a successor of knowledge engineering which has been considered as a key technology for building knowledge-intensive systems. Although knowledge engineering has contributed to eliciting expertise, organizing it into a computational structure, and building ...

Abstract Although perseveration-the inappropriate repetition of previous responses-is quite common among patients with neurological damage, relatively few detailed computational accounts of its various forms have been put forth. A particularly well-documented variety involves the pattern of errors made by "optic aphasic" patients, who have a selective deficit in naming visually presented object...

More efficient processing of high frequency (HF) words is a ubiquitous finding in healthy individuals, yet frequency effects are often small or absent in stroke aphasia. We propose that some patients fail to show the expected frequency effect because processing of HF words places strong demands on semantic control and regulation processes, counteracting the usual effect. This may occur because ...

Abstract An influential view in (philosophy of) cognitive science is that computation systems semantic, conceptually depending on representation: to compute manipulate representations. I argue accepting the non-semantic teleomechanistic of lays ground for a promising alternative strategy, which helps explain and naturalise representation, rather than other way around. show this computation-base...

Lexical semantics is the study of word meaning. The semantic web is a vision of what the web could be if it would foremost consist of knowledge (structured data) rather than text or other unstructured data as it is today. This talk is about the future of word meaning if the semantic web becomes a reality. First, I will therefore briefly clarify what the semantic web vision consists of, followed...

Detecting quality problems in semantic metadata is crucial for ensuring a high quality semantic web. Current approaches are primarily focused on the algorithms used in semantic metadata generation rather than on the data themselves. They typically require the presence of a gold standard and are not suitable for assessing the quality of semantic metadata. This paper proposes a novel approach, wh...

Do people predict specific word-forms during language comprehension? In an Event-Related Potential (ERP) study participants read German sentences with predictable (The goalkeeper claims that the slick ball was easy to CATCH.) and unpredictable (The kids boasted that the young horse was easy to SADDLE.) verbs. Verbs were either consistent with the expected word-form (catch/saddle) or inconsisten...