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12 Citations
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16 Pages

15 November 2016

Constructing a merged concept lattice with formal concept analysis (FCA) is an important research direction in the field of integrating multi-source geo-ontologies. Extracting essential geographical properties and reducing the concept lattice are two...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,608 Views
15 Pages

6 September 2022

Obstacle detection is the basis for the Advanced Driving Assistance System (ADAS) to take obstacle avoidance measures. However, it is a very essential and challenging task to detect unexpected obstacles on the road. To this end, an unexpected obstacl...

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  • Open Access
526 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2025

This paper addresses a well-known puzzle at the intersection of morphology and syntax: the categorical exclusion of adjectives modified by evaluative morphology from prenominal position in Italian. While Italian allows many adjectives to occur both p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,721 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2021

While the languages of the world vary greatly, they exhibit systematic patterns, as well. Semantic universals are restrictions on the variation in meaning exhibit cross-linguistically (e.g., that, in all languages, expressions of a certain type can o...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,446 Views
25 Pages

5 April 2023

To solve the problem of text clustering according to semantic groups, we suggest using a model of a unified lexico-semantic bond between texts and a similarity matrix based on it. Using lexico-semantic analysis methods, we can create “term&ndas...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,534 Views
14 Pages

29 May 2023

Three-dimensional models represent the shape and appearance of real-world objects in a virtual manner, enabling users to obtain a comprehensive and accurate understanding by observing their appearance from multiple perspectives. The semantic retrieva...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,279 Views
30 Pages

A Path-Curvature Measure for Word-Based Strategy Searches in Semantic Networks

  • Haim Cohen,
  • Yinon Nachshon,
  • Anat Maril,
  • Paz M. Naim,
  • Jürgen Jost and
  • Emil Saucan

19 August 2022

Building on a modified version of the Haantjes path-based curvature, this article offers a novel measure that considers the direction of a stream of associations in a semantic network and estimates the extent to which any single association attracts...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,335 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2021

Teacher education enables students to grow from ‘novice’ into ‘starting expert’ teachers. In this study, students’ textual peer feedback on video recordings of their teaching practice was analysed to determine the growth of their expertise in relatio...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,466 Views
16 Pages

Pedestrian Detection with Semantic Regions of Interest

  • Miao He,
  • Haibo Luo,
  • Zheng Chang and
  • Bin Hui

22 November 2017

For many pedestrian detectors, background vs. foreground errors heavily influence the detection quality. Our main contribution is to design semantic regions of interest that extract the foreground target roughly to reduce the background vs. foregroun...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,829 Views
23 Pages

Three-Dimensional Indoor Fire Evacuation Routing

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Yuling Pang,
  • Fen Chen and
  • Yeting Zhang

Traditional indoor navigation algorithms generally only consider the geometrical information of indoor space. However, the environmental information and semantic parameters of a fire are also important for evacuation routing in the case of a fire. It...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,855 Views
26 Pages

26 July 2022

This paper aims to evaluate the degree of affinity that Nordic companies’ reports published under the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) framework have. Several natural language processing and text-mining techniques were implemented and tested...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,537 Views
16 Pages

OpenEDS2020 Challenge on Gaze Tracking for VR: Dataset and Results

  • Cristina Palmero,
  • Abhishek Sharma,
  • Karsten Behrendt,
  • Kapil Krishnakumar,
  • Oleg V. Komogortsev and
  • Sachin S. Talathi

13 July 2021

This paper summarizes the OpenEDS 2020 Challenge dataset, the proposed baselines, and results obtained by the top three winners of each competition: (1) Gaze prediction Challenge, with the goal of predicting the gaze vector 1 to 5 frames into the fut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,201 Views
20 Pages

The measurement of semantic similarity has been widely recognized as having a fundamental and key role in information science and information systems. Although various models have been proposed to measure semantic similarity, these models are not abl...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,113 Views
20 Pages

A Copy Paste and Semantic Segmentation-Based Approach for the Classification and Assessment of Significant Rice Diseases

  • Zhiyong Li,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Luyu Shuai,
  • Mantao Wang,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Yuchao Wang and
  • Jiong Mu

20 November 2022

The accurate segmentation of significant rice diseases and assessment of the degree of disease damage are the keys to their early diagnosis and intelligent monitoring and are the core of accurate pest control and information management. Deep learning...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,946 Views
21 Pages

20 August 2022

The advancement of smartphones with multiple built-in sensors facilitates the development of crowdsourcing-based indoor map construction and localization. This paper proposes a crowdsourcing-based indoor semantic map construction and localization met...

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  • Open Access
1,551 Views
18 Pages

7 July 2023

As an important research tool in neuroscience, event-related potential (ERP) technology enables in-depth analysis of the consumer’s product image cognition process and complements and verifies the product image cognition model at the ERP level....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,274 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Word Problems in Primary Education Mathematics Textbooks in Spain

  • Raúl Tárraga-Mínguez,
  • Julio Tarín-Ibáñez and
  • Irene Lacruz-Pérez

1 September 2021

A textbook constitutes the hegemonic material of the educational institution. It acts as a mediator between the official curriculum and the educational practice. Given its potential influence in the classroom, this study analyzes the treatment of wor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,268 Views
19 Pages

DeepMDSCBA: An Improved Semantic Segmentation Model Based on DeepLabV3+ for Apple Images

  • Lufeng Mo,
  • Yishan Fan,
  • Guoying Wang,
  • Xiaomei Yi,
  • Xiaoping Wu and
  • Peng Wu

10 December 2022

The semantic segmentation of apples from images plays an important role in the automation of the apple industry. However, existing semantic segmentation methods such as FCN and UNet have the disadvantages of a low speed and accuracy for the segmentat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,656 Views
11 Pages

The Cross-Modal Suppressive Role of Visual Context on Speech Intelligibility: An ERP Study

  • Stanley Shen,
  • Jess R. Kerlin,
  • Heather Bortfeld and
  • Antoine J. Shahin

2 November 2020

The efficacy of audiovisual (AV) integration is reflected in the degree of cross-modal suppression of the auditory event-related potentials (ERPs, P1-N1-P2), while stronger semantic encoding is reflected in enhanced late ERP negativities (e.g., N450)...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,889 Views
15 Pages

27 October 2023

Word learning encompasses the understanding of interconnected clusters of words, where the comprehension of one word aids in the learning of another. Semantic networks, which have a long history in cognitive science, are commonly employed to explore...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,540 Views
13 Pages

Improving Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes for Self-Driving Cars with Synthetic Images

  • Maksims Ivanovs,
  • Kaspars Ozols,
  • Artis Dobrajs and
  • Roberts Kadikis

14 March 2022

Semantic segmentation of an incoming visual stream from cameras is an essential part of the perception system of self-driving cars. State-of-the-art results in semantic segmentation have been achieved with deep neural networks (DNNs), yet training th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,258 Views
27 Pages

22 October 2018

In this work, we investigate the performance of Markov Chains with respect to modelling semantic trajectories and predicting future locations. In the first part, we examine whether and to what degree the semantic level of semantic trajectories affect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,763 Views
20 Pages

Image Collection Summarization Method Based on Semantic Hierarchies

  • Zahra Riahi Samani and
  • Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

18 May 2020

The size of internet image collections is increasing drastically. As a result, new techniques are required to facilitate users in browsing, navigation, and summarization of these large volume collections. Image collection summarization methods presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,585 Views
15 Pages

The Method of Static Semantic Map Construction Based on Instance Segmentation and Dynamic Point Elimination

  • Jingyu Li,
  • Rongfen Zhang,
  • Yuhong Liu,
  • Zaiteng Zhang,
  • Runze Fan and
  • Wenjiang Liu

Semantic information usually contains a description of the environment content, which enables mobile robot to understand the environment and improves its ability to interact with the environment. In high-level human–computer interaction application,...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,063 Views
15 Pages

16 October 2020

Knowledge graph completion can make knowledge graphs more complete, which is a meaningful research topic. However, the existing methods do not make full use of entity semantic information. Another challenge is that a deep model requires large-scale m...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,375 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2024

Semantic ontologies have been widely utilized as crucial tools within natural language processing, underpinning applications such as knowledge extraction, question answering, machine translation, text comprehension, information retrieval, and text su...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,799 Views
26 Pages

26 July 2023

Most educators agree that essays are the best way to evaluate students’ understanding, guide their studies, and track their growth as learners. Manually grading student essays is a tedious but necessary part of the learning process. Automated E...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,127 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2023

Multi-camera-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been widely applied in various mobile robots under uncertain or unknown environments to accomplish tasks autonomously. However, the conventional purely data-driven feature extraction...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,553 Views
13 Pages

Theories of reading comprehension emphasize decoding and listening comprehension as two essential components. The current study aimed to investigate how Chinese character decoding and context-driven auditory semantic integration contribute to reading...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,981 Views
21 Pages

3 August 2022

The modern urban environment is becoming more and more complex. In helping us identify surrounding objects, vehicle vision sensors rely more on the semantic segmentation ability of deep learning networks. The performance of a semantic segmentation ne...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,732 Views
21 Pages

A Cross-Modal Semantic Alignment and Feature Fusion Method for Bionic Drone and Bird Recognition

  • Hehao Liu,
  • Dong Li,
  • Ming Zhang,
  • Jun Wan,
  • Shuang Liu,
  • Hanying Zhu and
  • Qinghua Liu

23 August 2024

With the continuous progress in drone and materials technology, numerous bionic drones have been developed and employed in various fields. These bionic drones are designed to mimic the shape of birds, seamlessly blending into the natural environment...

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  • Open Access
767 Views
30 Pages

Quantification of Overlapping and Network Complexity in News: Assessment of Top2Vec and Fuzzy Topic Models

  • Ismail Burak Parlak,
  • Musa Şervan Şahin,
  • Tankut Acarman,
  • Mouloud Adel and
  • Salah Bourennane

1 September 2025

Topic modeling in digital news faces the dual challenge of thematic overlap and evolving semantic boundaries, especially in morphologically rich languages like Turkish. To address these obstacles, we propose a topic modeling framework enhanced with k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
843 Views
34 Pages

In complex dynamic environments, the performance of SLAM systems on bionic robots is susceptible to interference from dynamic objects or structural changes in the environment. To address this problem, we propose a semantic visual SLAM (vSLAM) algorit...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,304 Views
9 Pages

30 November 2018

Although ageing is known to affect memory, the precise nature of its effect on retrieval and encoding processes is not well understood. Here, we examine the effect of ageing on the free recall of word lists, in which the semantic structure of word se...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,401 Views
12 Pages

Semantic Similarity of Common Verbal Expressions in Older Adults through a Pre-Trained Model

  • Marcos Orellana,
  • Patricio Santiago García,
  • Guillermo Daniel Ramon,
  • Jorge Luis Zambrano-Martinez,
  • Andrés Patiño-León,
  • María Verónica Serrano and
  • Priscila Cedillo

Health problems in older adults lead to situations where communication with peers, family and caregivers becomes challenging for seniors; therefore, it is necessary to use alternative methods to facilitate communication. In this context, Augmentative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,233 Views
13 Pages

Semantic Lidar-Inertial SLAM for Dynamic Scenes

  • Zean Bu,
  • Changku Sun and
  • Peng Wang

18 October 2022

Over the past few years, many impressive lidar-inertial SLAM systems have been developed and perform well under static scenes. However, most tasks are under dynamic environments in real life, and the determination of a method to improve accuracy and...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,557 Views
18 Pages

Most current affect scales and sentiment analysis on written text focus on quantifying valence/sentiment, the primary dimension of emotion. Distinguishing broader, more complex negative emotions of similar valence is key to evaluating mental health....

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,569 Views
25 Pages

SOLO-SLAM: A Parallel Semantic SLAM Algorithm for Dynamic Scenes

  • Liuxin Sun,
  • Junyu Wei,
  • Shaojing Su and
  • Peng Wu

15 September 2022

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a core technology for mobile robots working in unknown environments. Most existing SLAM techniques can achieve good localization accuracy in static scenes, as they are designed based on the assumption t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,298 Views
16 Pages

1 November 2022

Relation classification is an important fundamental task in information extraction, and convolutional neural networks have been commonly applied to relation classification with good results. In recent years, due to the proposed pre-training model BER...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,327 Views
25 Pages

Activity Recognition and Semantic Description for Indoor Mobile Localization

  • Sheng Guo,
  • Hanjiang Xiong,
  • Xianwei Zheng and
  • Yan Zhou

21 March 2017

As a result of the rapid development of smartphone-based indoor localization technology, location-based services in indoor spaces have become a topic of interest. However, to date, the rich data resulting from indoor localization and navigation appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
15,043 Views
29 Pages

23 January 2024

Systematic reviews are cumbersome yet essential to the epistemic process of medical science. Finding significant reports, however, is a daunting task because the sheer volume of published literature makes the manual screening of databases time-consum...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,905 Views
16 Pages

22 November 2023

To address the cost issue associated with pixel-level image annotation in fully supervised semantic segmentation, a method based on semi-supervised semantic segmentation is proposed for extracting winter wheat planting areas. This approach utilizes s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,849 Views
20 Pages

Advancing Mental Health Care: Intelligent Assessments and Automated Generation of Personalized Advice via M.I.N.I and RoBERTa

  • Yuezhong Wu,
  • Huan Xie,
  • Lin Gu,
  • Rongrong Chen,
  • Shanshan Chen,
  • Fanglan Wang,
  • Yiwen Liu,
  • Lingjiao Chen and
  • Jinsong Tang

16 October 2024

As mental health issues become increasingly prominent, we are now facing challenges such as the severe unequal distribution of medical resources and low diagnostic efficiency. This paper integrates finite state machines, retrieval algorithms, semanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,175 Views
15 Pages

The Cognitive Aspect of Hope in the Semantic Space of Male Patients Dying of Cancer

  • Bożena Baczewska,
  • Krystyna Wojciechowska,
  • Beata Antoszewska,
  • Maria Malm and
  • Krzysztof Leśniewski

The aim of this study is to characterize the cognitive aspect of the semantic space of hope in patients in the terminal stage of cancer. This was confirmed in the research on hope by C. R. Snyder and B. Schrank. Hope is of great importance in all the...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,572 Views
27 Pages

An Efficient and Automated Image Preprocessing Using Semantic Segmentation for Improving the 3D Reconstruction of Soybean Plants at the Vegetative Stage

  • Yongzhe Sun,
  • Linxiao Miao,
  • Ziming Zhao,
  • Tong Pan,
  • Xueying Wang,
  • Yixin Guo,
  • Dawei Xin,
  • Qingshan Chen and
  • Rongsheng Zhu

14 September 2023

The investigation of plant phenotypes through 3D modeling has emerged as a significant field in the study of automated plant phenotype acquisition. In 3D model construction, conventional image preprocessing methods exhibit low efficiency and inherent...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,441 Views
19 Pages

16 August 2016

The concept of “ritual syntax” is developed by relating it to cognitive studies of ritual, providing a fuller theoretical basis. Developing theoretical grounding requires differentiating between the members of five pairs of concepts: production is no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,429 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2022

Agricultural environment mapping is the premise of the autonomous navigation of agricultural robots. Due to the undulating terrain and chaotic environment, it is challenging to accurately map the environmental maize field using existing LOAM (LiDAR o...

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