SymbolFinder: Brainstorming Diverse Symbols Using Local Semantic Networks

The System of National Databases of Ethnic Minorities and Ethnic Policies (System) is recognized as one of most important means for governance and management in ethnic minority’s field of Vietnam State. The task of building this System now was put down in a direction of government and is going on first stage of design and development of database framework. One among main requirement for the System is that ability to provide fullest and adequate data and information to requests from users from various organizations of state management. As mentioned in the first draft of this design in the national-wide conference that recently hold in Hanoi (Aug-2017), one of the critical point of the design and development of databases of this system is to build “smart” searching engine based on semantic technology. It can retrieve those information on ethnic minorities and ethnic minority’s area that relevant together in term of providing users any relevant information based on only one unique query. This paper is aiming to introduce some techniques with illustrative examples that suitable for the idea of building this smart engine.

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The phenomenon of peripheral overlap in semantic networks: Russian prefixes PRI- and POD-

Вопросы языкознания ◽

10.31857/s0373658x0001058-2 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 79-94

Author(s):

Anastasia Makarova ◽

Keyword(s):

Semantic Networks

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Generative Adversarial Networks to Improve the Robustness of Visual Defect Segmentation by Semantic Networks in Manufacturing Components

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11146368 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (14) ◽

pp. 6368

Author(s):

Fátima A. Saiz ◽

Garazi Alfaro ◽

Iñigo Barandiaran ◽

Manuel Graña

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc ◽

Data Augmentation ◽

Semantic Network ◽

Semantic Networks ◽

Stereo Image ◽

Generative Adversarial Networks ◽

Specific Class ◽

Adversarial Networks ◽

Augmentation Techniques ◽

Image Acquisition System

This paper describes the application of Semantic Networks for the detection of defects in images of metallic manufactured components in a situation where the number of available samples of defects is small, which is rather common in real practical environments. In order to overcome this shortage of data, the common approach is to use conventional data augmentation techniques. We resort to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) that have shown the capability to generate highly convincing samples of a specific class as a result of a game between a discriminator and a generator module. Here, we apply the GANs to generate samples of images of metallic manufactured components with specific defects, in order to improve training of Semantic Networks (specifically DeepLabV3+ and Pyramid Attention Network (PAN) networks) carrying out the defect detection and segmentation. Our process carries out the generation of defect images using the StyleGAN2 with the DiffAugment method, followed by a conventional data augmentation over the entire enriched dataset, achieving a large balanced dataset that allows robust training of the Semantic Network. We demonstrate the approach on a private dataset generated for an industrial client, where images are captured by an ad-hoc photometric-stereo image acquisition system, and a public dataset, the Northeastern University surface defect database (NEU). The proposed approach achieves an improvement of 7% and 6% in an intersection over union (IoU) measure of detection performance on each dataset over the conventional data augmentation.

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The Popular Subdiscourse: Probabilistic Semantic Networks

Current Anthropology ◽

10.1086/202093 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 396-397 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pierre Maranda

Keyword(s):

Semantic Networks ◽

Probabilistic Semantic

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Professional identity and experience of undergraduate students: an analysis of semantic networks

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica ◽

10.1186/s41155-021-00179-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Luara Carvalho ◽

Elisa Maria Barbosa de Amorim-Ribeiro ◽

Marcelo do Vale Cunha ◽

Luciana Mourão

Keyword(s):

Professional Identity ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Semantic Networks ◽

Work Experiences ◽

Undergraduate Studies ◽

Course Work

AbstractWork experiences during undergraduate studies can be remarkable in the journey of undergraduate students. The objective of this study was to assess, by analyzing semantic networks, the role of work experiences in the meanings those individuals attribute to professional identity. The sample consisted of 2291 students (60% women) divided into three groups: do not work, work in a field related to their course, work in a field not related to their course. The semantic networks of these groups were composed of words uttered from the professional identity prime. We chose to work with the critical network, obtained from the analysis of the incidence-fidelity indexes of the word pairs. The results evidence that work experiences are related to how undergraduate students attribute meaning to professional identity, in such a way that three different networks were formed for these groups. The network of those who work outside their field was the only one that integrated words with negative content, while the semantic networks of those who do not work and those who work in their field, despite containing words that do not always coincide, present a similar macrostructure. We conclude that work experiences play an important role in the meanings that undergraduate students attribute to professional identity. The study innovates by revealing elements of professional-identity construction, besides allowing for reflections on the effects of work experiences during the college period.

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Conceptual metaphors as a tool for the efficient teaching of Dutch and German posture verbs

Review of Cognitive Linguistics ◽

10.1075/rcl.12.1.01kno ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 1-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sabine De Knop ◽

Julien Perrez

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Learners ◽

Semantic Networks ◽

Romance Languages ◽

Conceptual Metaphors ◽

Foreign Language Learners ◽

French Speaking ◽

Awareness Raising ◽

Set Up ◽

Germanic Languages

The article deals with the typological differences between the Romance language French and the Germanic languages German and Dutch for the linguistic expressions of posture and location. It describes how these typological differences can be problematic for French-speaking learners of German and Dutch. The main difference between both types of languages is that posture and location tend to be encoded by posture verbs in Germanic languages and by very general verbs in Romance languages (Talmy 2000). After a detailed description of the semantic networks of the German and Dutch posture verbs, the paper takes a critical look at how these expressions are dealt with in teaching manuals. It further presents strategies for the efficient teaching of posture verbs to foreign language learners. These strategies are among others awareness-raising exercises about the compulsory use of posture verbs in Germanic languages and the description of conceptual metaphors in different languages. These pedagogical avenues for the efficient teaching of the Dutch and German posture verbs constitute a first step towards the elaboration of an experimental set-up aiming at verifying them.

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