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A Car as a Semantic Web Thing: Motivation and Demonstration

2018 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS), 2018
Car signal data is usually hard to access, understand and integrate for non automotive domain experts.In this paper, we use semantic technologies for enriching signal data in the automotive industry and access it through Web of Things interactions. This combination allows the access and integration of car data from the web.We built VSSo, a Vehicle ...
Benjamin Klotz, Soumya Kanti Datta, Daniel Wilms, Raphaël Troncy, Christian Bonnet   +4 more
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Semantically Motivated Improvements for PPM Variants

The Computer Journal, 1997
The on-line sequence modelling algorithm 'Prediction by Partial Matching' (PPM) has set the performance standard in lossless data compression research since Moffat's 1990 implementation, PPMC. Despite intense research activity, only Howard's 1993 escape-count update mechanism 'D' has provided any consistent, order-independent performance improvement to
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Semantics of metamorphosis in the motive of magical flight

Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), 2021
The article considers a typological series of plots with a motive for magical flight. The object of the analysis was metamorphoses of objects that the fugitive threw in front of the pursuer. The motive for magical flight is widespread in folklore of the peoples of the Caucasus, Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
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Evolutionary motivations for semantic universals

2008
Most work in 'evolutionary linguistics' seeks to motivate the emergence of linguistic universals. Although the search for universals never played a major role in semantics, a number of such universals have been proposed concerning connectives, property and preposition denoting expressions, and quantifiers.
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Motivation, Semantics, and Integration of Turkisms

2020
This chapter looks at the semantics of turkisms in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian texts. It also discusses the motivation behind borrowings, namely social, cultural, and political factors. Particular attention is given to the role context plays in the distribution of core and cultural Turkish loans in the texts analysed ...
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Semantic defocusing: semantically motivated syntax of Russian SJA constructions

Russian Linguistics, 2012
This paper aims to investigate the prototypical function of SJA and to classify SJA constructions in Russian. These so-called reflexive constructions express a ‘semantic defocus’, not intransitivity. By defocusing on a participant a different construal of a situation is shown.
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Use of the Semantic Differential in the Study of Motivation

Psychological Reports, 1971
Separate groups of students in general psychology were told that they had either failed or succeeded on a test which presumably measured their general background knowledge. Educationally related words were then rated on the semantic differential by these Ss and were compared to the ratings of a control condition.
Stuart Miller, Carol James, Barbara Rytten, Roy Tansill, Chris Thompson   +4 more
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MOTIVATION OF THE CHINESE CHARACTERS WITH OBJECT SEMANTICS

2023
Motivational features that determine the choice of the main semantic component of complex Chinese characters with object semantics are established and described in this article. The analysis of the determinatives that are included in multicomponent characters of various semantic types (nominations of clothing, transport, furniture, weapons, containers,
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Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics

2011
Reference-point reasoning is a pervasive cognitive phenomenon intrinsic to many domains of human activity. However, very little is known about linguistic aspects of this phenomenon. This paper elaborates the reference-point model by applying it to lexical semantics and, more specifically, to the semantics of dimensional adjectives.
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Treshing floor: semantic motivation

2017
The notion of the threshing floor in European languages is analyzed from etymological and motivational point of view. On the basis of the analysis terms for ‘threshing floor’ in European languages most often derive from words describing the process and products of threshing, shape or structure or location.
Brozović Rončević, Dunja, Pronk, Tijmen Cornelis   +1 more
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