I once read a quote that goes something like this : Wild horses will not be able to catch hurtful words once they have been spoken . I don’t remember who said it and there’s a good chance that it’s not properly quoted either (apologies to the quotee* ). In any event, the point of using that quote is to explain that words are everything. People often dismiss what someone else…
☕ Read more

It is your Conference! – The 3 rd Neuro-Semantics International Conference The NS Conference 2015 Hong Kong has only 14 days to go! Again, I would like to invite you and your people to join our 3rd Neuro Semantic International Conference to be first held in Hong Kong on Jun 26 and 27. It is an event for your people to know more about the fields that you are studying and working…
☕ Read more

The element has had an off-again, on-again relationship with HTML5. Removed from the specification several months ago by WHATWG, it was quickly reinserted after an uprising from the web development community. is not just back, it’s improved and better than ever, with many of the element’s new attributes officially supported by the W3C. surrounds time and date content on your…
☕ Read more

You now have full access to our lessons and courses. Watch the lesson now or keep exploring. You ve watched a video! Check out the next video or take the quiz to keep learning. Getting a perfect score on a quiz is how you earn course progress. If you aced it, great job! If not, try again. You now have full access to our lessons and courses, watch the lesson now or keep exploring…
☕ Read more

This book presents a series of systematic, empirically based studies of word meanings. Each chapter investigates key expressions drawn from different domains of the lexicon – concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The examples chosen are complex and culturally important: they include the cross-linguistic semantics of basic social categories like men…
☕ Read more

In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the set of rules that defines the combinations of symbols that are considered to be a correctly structured document or fragment in that language. This applies both to programming languages, where the document represents source code, and markup languages, where the document represents data. The syntax of a language defines…
☕ Read more

Frame semantics is a theory of linguistic meaning developed by Charles J. Fillmore that extends his earlier case grammar. It relates linguistic semantics to encyclopaedic knowledge. The basic idea is that one cannot understand the meaning of a single word without access to all the essential knowledge that relates to that word. For example, one would not be able to understand…
☕ Read more

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at If you’d like to comment on this document, the preferred means for commenting is to submit your comments through…
☕ Read more

This method is for rank beginners and I believe it to be the most efficient way of attaining a beginner level from scratch. It’s inspired by the theory of Conceptual Semantics and the worthy aspects of Grammar Translation. I used this system to attain a beginner level in Mandarin in six months despite putting in less than three hours’ study per week. 1. The student is issued…
☕ Read more

June 9-10, 2005 Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria Nearby: Workshop program Workshop participants Workshop Summary Report Workshop minutes for June 9th am, June 9th pm, June 10th am, June 10th pm. Web Services standards, under development in the W3C Web Services Activity and other organizations, make up an integrated technology stack that Web applications…
☕ Read more

Dave McComb s book Semantics in Business Systems recommended John Saeed s Semantics as an excellent introductory book on semantics in everyday life , so I found a cheap used copy and have been working my way through it. I m sure that it s been used for both graduate and undergraduate courses, and it s not too difficult to follow so far. I especially like this part, which Saeed…
☕ Read more

The branch of grammar that deals with the inner structure and general characteristics of sentences. The founder of syntax is generally considered to be the Greek grammarian A. Dyscolus (second century). Over the course of the development of linguistic theory, the content and relative significance of syntax in the description of language have varied. In the early period of the…
☕ Read more

We’ve been migrating a lot of Google Shopping API (GSA) developers over to our API over the past few months. To help our new developers transition to our API from the GSA, we’ve written a migration guide that shows equivalent Semantics3 Product API queries to all the GSA queries. You can read the full migration guide here: Here is a sample: Google Query GET Equivalent Semantics3…
☕ Read more

Cambridge University Press, 1981 - 221 Seiten When the first edition of Semantics appeared in 1976, the developments in this aspect of language study were exciting interest not only among linguists, but among philosophers, psychologists and logicians. Professor Palmer s straightforward and comprehensive book was immediately welcomed as one of the best introductions to the subject…
☕ Read more

This field of study is concerned with the referential meanings of linguistic expressions across cultures and languages. The term ethnosemantics Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of titles within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view restricted versions of this content, plus any full text content that…
☕ Read more

Sharpie answer Harper Lee. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images An investigative reporter in Alabama has become the first journalist to receive a direct response from Harper Lee following her unexpected announcement that she would be releasing a sequel to her much-beloved, Pulitzer-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird this summer. Unfortunately for Al.com’s Connor Sheets…
☕ Read more

Let’s suppose today we are having a home architecture 101 class and I’m going to ask you some questions, then think about the first word that comes to your mind. What place is used for sleeping? When you take a shower where do you go? Where can we find a dinning table? Probably you answered: bedroom, bathroom, and dinning room. And if I answered: room, room, and room. What…
☕ Read more

Getting to know PROV - the W3C Provenance Specifications Provenance (the origin or source) of information is critical in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to give credit to its originators when reusing it. In order to promote the widespread publication of provenance information on the Web…
☕ Read more