The article analyzes the linguistic nature of some nuclear lexemes (power, control, authority, influence) verbalizing the basic concept of the English-language political discourse – the concept of “Power”. The paper reveals the structure of the concept, its conceptual features, as well as the main characteristics of the concept representatives at the language and functional levels.

The next generation of task support systems aims at providing the relevant knowledge to knowledge-dependent activities, reducing the effort required to find or infer this knowledge from the data. In order to exploit knowledge associated with (or embedded in) databases and to migrate from data to knowledge management environments, conceptual modeling languages must offer more expressiveness than...

A data graph is a convenient paradigm for supporting keyword search that takes into account available semantic structure and not just textual relevance. However, the problem of constructing data graphs that facilitate both efficiency and effectiveness of the underlying system has hardly been addressed. A conceptual model for this task is proposed. Principles for constructing good data graphs ar...

knowledge representation in the coming decade and on already emerging trends. In “Representations of Representations,” he discussed the contribution of conceptual graphs to the work of the American National Standards Institute X3T2 Group in preparing a report on the isolation of a common logic foundation and conceptual schema–modeling facilities. Papers were presented by a number of individuals...

Reasoning on provenance information and property propagation is of significant importance in e-science since it helps scientists manage derived metadata in order to understand the source of an object, reproduce results of processes and facilitate quality control of results and processes. In this paper we introduce a simple, yet powerful reasoning mechanism based on property propagation along th...

hysteresis has been widely recognized in the soil water relationship. in this paper, a detailed review of hysteresis was performed in relation to its models. so far, different models have been suggested to describe hysteresis in the water retention curve (wrc) that could be categorized into two main groups: conceptual and empirical models. the models in the first group are based on the domain t...

the aim of this paper is examining and criticizing a new concept in moral education named moral literacy. recent years, moral literacy approach attempts to redefine morality in the framework of literacy and via that, return moral education to the school. logical-conceptual analysis of “moral literacy” indicated us some constructive elements of this combination like competency, knowledge, acquis...

gilles fauconnier and mark turner have considered the issue of conceptual metaphor as a special case of more general and comprehensive matter. this vast matter is the analysis of mind system mechanism when it exposes to conceptual domains. to describe such a process, fauconnier and turner use the term of mental or conceptual space. they believe that in order to understand much of human thought ...

In this paper we present a comprehensive approach to conceptual structuring and intelligent navigation of text databases. Given any collection of texts, we first automatically extract a set of index terms describing each text. Next, we use a particular lattice conceptual clustering method to build a network of clustered texts whose nodes are described using the

Relationships between the expectations of the PhD, creativity and identity are a rich terrain for research, explored here. Doctoral student identity and the expectations of the PhD have been the focus of much previous work, while work on candidates pursuing research in literature and art has focused on tensions in their work, and the conceptual threshold crossings they make during the PhD journ...