According to the “Semantic Differential” the connotative meaning of words can be quantified in statistically defined dimensions where every word is uniquely located on the dimensions Evaluation (E), Potency (P), and Activity (A). We studied 249 children between 9 and 18 years of age who rated 72 German nouns on 12 bipolar adjective scales. Three age groups were compared: 9–11…
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Semantics Is primarily that branch of the academic discipline of linguistics concerned with ‘the study of linguistic meaning, of words and sentences’ (Katie Wales, ‘A Dictionary of Stylistics’). It is, however, sometimes used loosely to dismiss an argument. A speaker who either doesn’t understand a point that is being made, or who feels someone else is winning the argument…
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Journal Article Department/ Unit Language Centre Abstract This paper explores the theory of lexical knowledge set forth in the Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics (Biq 2) and extends its scope to include issues concerning verbal polysemy. Previous versions of the theory postulated that different event structures required sense distinctions. In examining corpora…
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On April 21, 2011, I had the pleasure of speaking to Professor Stuart Madnick s Evolution Towards Web 3.0 class at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The topic of the lecture was—unsurprisingly—the Semantic Web. I had a great time putting together the material and discussing it with the students, who seemed to be very engaged in the topic. It was a less technical audience…
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What are we talking about? Semantics is a topic that has been much discussed last year and still remains an important issue (although it’s becoming somewhat of a buzzword. Hype or reality?). This post is not aimed at discussing the value or importance of semantics as such, but rather its general framework and its application to hypertext documents and web sites in general…
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The symbol table records information about each symbol name in a program. Historically, names were called symbols, and hence we talk about a symbol table rather than a name table. In this module, the word symbol will mean name. It is the semantic analysis phase which creates the symbol table because it is not until the semantic analysis phase that enough information is known…
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Semantic keyword association has been a factor in Google’s algorithms since the Hummingbird update in August earlier this year. It was an update which took Google’s ranking factors to the next level. Rather than us optimising for certain keywords, we now find ourselves having to optimise for entire topics by using natural variants of the words e.g. sunset photographs, sunset…
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This topic describes how to write a move constructor and a move assignment operator for a C++ class. A move constructor enables you to implement move semantics, which can significantly improve the performance of your applications. For more information about move semantics, see . This topic builds upon the following C++ class, MemoryBlock, which manages a memory buffer. // MemoryBlock.h…
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Comparison of Semantic Intent and Realization in Product Design: A Study on High-End Furniture Impressions Javad Khalaj, Owain Pedgley Abstract This paper presents a comparative analysis of designers’ intended impressions and users’ realized impressions of products, within the context of design communication. Its originality comes from the empirical approach taken, which examines…
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It is interesting (to me anyway) how the meaning of words, or the interpretation of a phrase can radically affect how something is taken by someone else. Consider the following situation. You are offered a chance to do something next weekend. You don t really care one way or the other if you do this event. You might be tempted (I would have been until recently!) to say: Turns…
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