A comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. Alan
Cruse covers semantic matters, but also deals with topics that are usually considered to fall …

This book is designed to provide the foundations for ontology engineering. It is motivated by
the Ontology 101 tutorial given for many years at the Semantic Technology Conference and …

A lexicon is a linguistic object and hence is not the same thing as an ontology, which is non-
linguistic. Nonetheless, word senses are in many ways similar to ontological concepts and …

Contents: Introduction: The importance of semantics for information science (IS) The status
of semantic research in information science. Semantics and the philosophy of science …

This chapter examines the nature of semantic relations and their main applications in
information science. The nature and types of semantic relations are discussed from the …

In recent years, several scientific disciplines such as cognitive science, generative
linguistics, artificial intelligence (AI), and computational linguistics have showed growing …

Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic,
subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target …

Various supervised algorithms for mining causal relations from large corpora exist. These
algorithms have focused on relations explicitly expressed with causal verbs, eg “to cause” …

Aiming at the convergence between Earth observation (EO) Big Data and Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI), this two-part paper identifies an innovative, but realistic EO optical …

This article presents a vector space model approach to representing documents and
queries, based on concepts instead of terms and using WordNet as a light ontology. Such …