SUMMARY Despite the importance of using the semantic distance to improve the performance of conventional expression-based clustering, there are few freely available software that provides a clustering algorithm using the ontology-based semantic distances as prior knowledge. Here, we present the SICAGO (SemI-supervised Cluster Analysis using semantic distance between gene pairs in Gene Ontology)...

The sensory/functional theory, which was originally proposed by Warrington and Shallice (1984), makes two crucial assumptions about the organization of the semantic system and the structure of semantic categories: The first assumption is that the semantic system is organized into modality-specific components, of which the most important are the visual and the functional/associative components. ...

In the present study, we examined the relation of knowledge of semantic radicals to students’ language proficiency and word reading for adult Chinese-as-a-foreign language students. Ninety-seven college students rated their proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Chinese, and were administered measures of receptive and productive knowledge of semantic radical position and fu...

TagClouds is a popular visualization for the collaborative tags. However it has some instinct problems such as linguistic issues, high semantic density and poor understanding of hierarchical structure and semantic relation between tags. In this paper we investigate the ways to support semantic understanding of collaborative tags and propose an improved visualization named TagClusters. Based on ...

The lexical layer of a language is determined by the way life, culture, level thinking, worldview people who speak this language. While concrete words embody ethnoculture and life people, abstract name worldview, thinking cer-tain ethical, aesthetic, cultural, spiritual concepts norms. This article analyzes names’ meanings state in Uzbek lan-guage. Their semantic groups, structure, development ...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for acquiring translation templates automatically from unannotated bilingual spoken language corpora. Two basic algorithms are adopted: a grammar induction algorithm, and an alignment algorithm using Bracketing Transduction Grammar. The approach is unsupervised, statistical, data-driven, and employs no parsing procedure. The acquisition procedure consist...

Ontologies are in the heart of the knowledge management process. Different semantic measures have been proposed in the literature to evaluate the strength of the semantic link between two concepts or two groups of concepts from either two different ontologies (ontology alignment) or the same ontology. This article presents an off-context study of eight semantic measures based on an ontology res...

we deal with a wide range of colors in our daily life. they are such ubiquitous phenomena that is hard and next to impossible to imagine even a single entity (be it an object, place, living creature, etc) devoid of them. they are like death and tax which nobody can dispense with. this omnipresence of colors around us has also made its way through abstract and less tangible entities via the inte...