Fifty-eight Culicoides species were recorded in Israel, the Golan Heights, and Sinai. Culicoides arabiensis and C. near iranica were recorded for the first time. Culicoides kurensis was identified instead of the misidentified C. badooshensis. Of the Culicoides species that appeared as distinct species in previous publications, it is now recognized that C. subravus is a synonym of C. ravus, C. c...

This paper describes an on-going project concerning with an ontological lexical resource based on the abundant conceptual information grounded on Chinese characters. The ultimate goal of this project is set to construct a cognitively sound and computationally effective character-grounded machine-understandable resource. Philosophically, Chinese ideogram has its ontological status, but its appli...

This paper describes an attempt to develop Punjabi WordNet by using expansion approach from Hindi WordNet under Indradhanush WordNet Project. The origin, symbols, morphological and syntactic characteristics of Punjabi Language are presented in this paper. The lexical semantic relations used in Punjabi WordNet are elaborated. The need for synset categorization and the results of this categorizat...

The Mediterranean species of the genus Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865 as currently conceived, are herein reviewed. The genus is represented in the Mediterranean Sea by eleven species, of which seven are here described as new, all included conservatively in the subgenus Mitrolumna Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883: Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) columbellaria (Scacchi, 1836), Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) ...

An investigation of name-bearing types and other relevant type specimens of twelve nominal Leptopelis taxa described from or distributed in the Eastern Arc Mountains in East Africa was carried out. Our aim was to clarify their status and where necessary revise respective nomina. We suggest several nomenclatural and taxonomic actions: 1) Leptopelis barbouri Ahl, 1929 is transferred to the synony...

Nearor quasi-synonyms can have an important role in the task of Information Retrieval since they may help to address the problem of vocabulary mismatch between queries and documents. One current approach to generating quasi-synonyms uses a general similarity measure to score the synonymy of two words based on their context vectors. In contrast, we compare two simple measures that take into acco...

In this paper, we present an approach for retrieving relevant articles from the biomedical corpus. Our first run considered four kinds of operators as query expansion. The operators are phrase, mandatory, optional and synonym set. The second run lowered the ranking of documents which contained query terms only in their MeSH fields. The results of the official runs and further experiments were l...

The paper presents the strategy and results of mapping adjective synsets between plWordNet (the wordnet of Polish, cf. Piasecki et al. 2009, Maziarz et al. 2013) and Princeton WordNet (cf. Fellbaum 1998). The main challenge of this enterprise has been very different synset relation structures in the two networks: horizontal, dumbbell-model based in PWN and vertical, hyponymy-based in plWN. More...

Types of Rhyparochromidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) species described by Carl Peter Thunberg, deposited in the Museum of Evolution (formerly Zoologiska Institut), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, were reexamined and the taxonomic and nomenclatural problems that existed among those species discussed and resolved as required. Lectotypes are designated for Cimex caffer Thunberg, 178...

The distance or similarity metric plays an important role in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of a number of metrics such as the Jaccard coefficient, especially in synonym acquisition. While the existing metrics perform quite well, to further improve performance, we propose the use of a supervised machine learning algorithm that ...