High quality terminologies are a fundamental requirement in a range of health care applications. To ensure high quality terminologies we should reflect about the understandability, reproducibility and utility criteria within a terminology. This paper describes efforts to improve the understandability of SNOMED. We describe the problem related to the grammatical conjunctions "and" and "or" and h...

Can linguistic structures influence how people perceive and remember causal events? Using a change-detection method, we presented participants with direct causal scenes paired with either transitive (He stretched the toy) or periphrastic sentences (He made the toy stretch.) Participants then viewed movies with changes to the manner of action (stretching the toy with palms up vs. down), the resu...

Abstract Many systems have been developed for creating syntactically annotated corpora. However, they mainly focus on interface usability and hardly pay attention to knowledge sharing among annotators in the task. In order to incorporate the functionality of knowledge sharing, we emphasized the importance of normalizing the annotation process. As a first step toward knowledge sharing, this pape...

The paper presents a morphological learning process simulated by an ICA (Independent Component Analysis) algorithm. In an unsupervised manner, the algorithm is able to discover emergent morphologically-motivated features from a representative corpus of Italian verbs. The discovered features can be assumed as non-discrete and distributed representations of the morphological data. Final results a...

The purpose of the present study is to analyse abstracts related to Applied Linguistics, and more precisely the discourse functions of grammatical subjects and verbs. The corpus consisted of 50 PhD thesis abstracts written on the subject of Applied Linguistics. All of the abstracts were written from 2010 to 2014. The theses from which the abstracts were extracted are available in the ProQuest d...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between students‘ explicit knowledge in grammar and their translation ability. The importance of grammatical knowledge and its effectiveness in translation quality motivated the researcher to run this study and consider grammatical knowledge in Per- sian as the source language of Iranian students. It is clear that grammar is an area ...

In this note, it is proved that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a balanced (q, {3, 4}, λ)-DF over GF (q) are q ≥ 4 and q ≡ 1 (mod 18 gcd(18,λ) ).

We wish to obtain information about BP̃LF ; in fact we can study BGF (which is purely homotopy theoretic) and the fibre GF /P̃LF of χ. In Chapter III we construct a map θ : GF /P̃LF−−→(G/PL) , where G/PL is the space studied in Sullivan’s thesis under the name F/PL, and (G/PL) is the space of all unbased maps from F to G/PL. Theorems 5,6 show that, under suitable conditions, θ is almost a homotopy...

Let R be a right GF -closed ring with finite left and right Gorenstein global dimension. We prove that if I is an ideal of R such that R/I is a semi-simple ring, then the Gorenstein flat dimension of R/I as a right R-module and the Gorenstein injective dimension of R/I as a left R-module are identical. In particular, we show that for a simple module S over a commutative Gorenstein ring R, the G...

Our model of sentence comprehension includes at least grammatical processes important for structure-building, and executive resources such as working memory that support these grammatical processes. We hypothesized that a core network of brain regions supports grammatical processes, and that additional brain regions are activated depending on the working memory demands associated with processin...