this study compared the use of five different models to describe the growth from birth to 20 weeks of age of kids from both genders of nondescript goats. fifty nine (59) nondescript kids were weighed weekly at the university of maiduguri livestock teaching and research farm, nigeria and the live weights were modeled. biologically relevant variables were estimated for each kid from the logistic,...

This paper investigates the application of Maximum Entropy Markov Models to semantic role labelling. Syntactic chunks are labelled according to the semantic role they fill for sentence verb predicates. The model is trained on the subset of Propbank data provided for the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning 2004. Good precision is achieved, which is of key importance for informa...

OntoTrack is a new browsing and editing “in-one-view” ontology authoring tool that combines a hierarchical graphical layout and instant reasoning feedback for (the most rational fraction of) OWL Lite. OntoTrack provides an animated and zoomable view with context sensitive features like click-able miniature branches or selective detail views together with drag-and-drop editing. Each editing step...

Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires some mapping between terms in the vocabularies. Matching applications generate such mappings. When the matching process utilizes term meaning (instead of simply relying on syntax), we refer to the process as semantic matching. If users are to use the results of matching applications, they need information about the mappin...

Several description frameworks to semantically describe and match services on the one hand and service requests on the other have been presented in the literature. Many of the current proposals for defining notions of match between service advertisements and requests are based on subsumption checking in more or less expressive Description Logics, thus providing boolean match functions, rather t...

Regions in human lateral and ventral occipitotemporal cortices (OTC) respond selectively to pictures of the human body and its parts. What are the organizational principles underlying body part responses in these regions? Here we used representational similarity analysis (RSA) of fMRI data to test multiple possible organizational principles: shape similarity, physical proximity, cortical homunc...

Objective: According to the declarative/procedural model, the semantic aspect of language depends on the brain structures responsible for declarative memory. The word pairs task is a common tool for evaluating declarative memory. The current study aimed to design a valid and reliable task for evaluating declarative memory in Persian children at learning and retention stages and to investigate i...

this research seeks to explore and examine the semantic implications women's sense of insecurity in public spaces city of social interpretationism approach. in this study, data were collected through semi-structured interviews and gt is used to analyze the data. using theoretical and purposive sampling, 27 women were interviewed. finally, collected data were analyzed and coded in the form ...

1. Goals and Methodology The aim of this abstract is to introduce LexIt, a freely available lexical resource to characterize Italian verb argument properties in terms of distributional information automatically extracted from large corpora with state-of-the-art computational linguistics methods. Research on automatic extraction of subcategorization frames from corpora has a long tradition in co...