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Journal articles on the topic "Semantics"

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Soames, Scott. "Semantics and Semantic Competence." Philosophical Perspectives 3 (1989): 575. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2214282.

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WANG, YINGXU. "ON FORMAL AND COGNITIVE SEMANTICS FOR SEMANTIC COMPUTING." International Journal of Semantic Computing 04, no. 02 (June 2010): 203–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793351x10000833.

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Semantics is the meaning of symbols, notations, concepts, functions, and behaviors, as well as their relations that can be deduced onto a set of predefined entities and/or known concepts. Semantic computing is an emerging computational methodology that models and implements computational structures and behaviors at semantic or knowledge level beyond that of symbolic data. In semantic computing, formal semantics can be classified into the categories of to be, to have, and to do semantics. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of formal and cognitive semantics for semantic computing in the fields of computational linguistics, software science, computational intelligence, cognitive computing, and denotational mathematics. A set of novel formal semantics, such as deductive semantics, concept-algebra-based semantics, and visual semantics, is introduced that forms a theoretical and cognitive foundation for semantic computing. Applications of formal semantics in semantic computing are presented in case studies on semantic cognition of natural languages, semantic analyses of computing behaviors, behavioral semantics of human cognitive processes, and visual semantic algebra for image and visual object manipulations.
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Acero, Juan José. "Games in Semantics: Semantic games." Enrahonar. Quaderns de filosofia 16 (March 1, 1990): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.752.

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Sheth, Amit, Cartic Ramakrishnan, and Christopher Thomas. "Semantics for the Semantic Web." International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 1, no. 1 (January 2005): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jswis.2005010101.

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Gao, Fan. "Semantic Choice in Translation from Morris' Modern Semiotic Theory." Technium Social Sciences Journal 55 (March 8, 2024): 387–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v55i1.10694.

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From the perspective of the Internet, this article focuses on semantic selection in translation, and delves into the semantic selection of translation in Morris's modern semiotic theory. After exploring the relevant theoretical concepts by dimensions, it is found that the semantics of translation in Morris' modern semiotic theory can be divided into three types: denotational semantics, pragmatic semantics and intra-verbal semantics. Finally, the choice of the three types of semantics: denotational semantics, pragmatic semantics and intra-verbal semantics is explored in depth to provide guidance for related theoretical research.
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Kozlov, Ivan M., and Elena S. Kuznetsova. "Semantic Differences between Verb-Nominal Collocations and Corresponding Verbs (As Exemplified by Collocations with Verbs Ispytyvat’ / Ispytat’)." Vestnik NSU. Series: History, Philology 20, no. 9 (December 6, 2021): 68–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2021-20-9-68-74.

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The following article focuses on semantical differences of verbal-nominal descriptive predicates constructed by verbs ispytyvat’ / ispytat’ from their lexically adequate verbal correlates. The Russian linguistic tradition describes such collocations as verbal periphrasis, and this leads to a misjudgment of their semantical particularity. Our main goal is to describe the differences due to state semantical independence of the collocations from the verbs. The study showed that an emotional state described by descriptive predicates with verbs ispytyvat’ / ispytat’ presupposes no explication, which differs them from some lexically adequate verbal correlates. It reveals an intra-subject nature of their semantics that can be manifested in a specific actant structure or in its implementation. It is also worth noting their semantic complexity and an important role of verbal component: different meanings of the verbal component cause different semantics of whole collocation even with the same nominal one. Thus, particular meaning of a nominal component and of a verbal one makes up semantics of a whole construction. Many types and examples of semantical discrepancy between the verbal-nominal descriptive predicates and their lexically adequate verbal correlates leads to the necessity of describing their semantics departed from the verbal correlates’ meaning and of the refusal to consider them as means of verbal periphrasis.
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Asudeh, Ash. "Glue Semantics." Annual Review of Linguistics 8, no. 1 (January 14, 2022): 321–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-032521-053835.

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Glue Semantics (Glue) is a general framework for semantic composition and the syntax–semantics interface. The framework grew out of an interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of formal linguistics, formal logic, and computer science. Glue assumes a separate level of syntax; this can be any syntactic framework in which syntactic structures have heads. Glue uses a fragment of linear logic for semantic composition. General linear logic terms in Glue meaning constructors are instantiated relative to a syntactic parse. The separation of the logic of composition from structural syntax distinguishes Glue from other theories of semantic composition and the syntax–semantics interface. It allows Glue to capture semantic ambiguity, such as quantifier scope ambiguity, without necessarily positing an ambiguity in the syntactic structure. Glue is introduced here in relation to four of its key properties, which are used as organizing themes: resource-sensitive composition, flexible composition, autonomy of syntax, and syntax/semantics non-isomorphism.
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Shutova, Maria, and Svitlana Mudrynych. "Morphological and semantic features of the words of semantics state in modern English." International Science Journal of Education & Linguistics 1, no. 5 (December 1, 2022): 70–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.46299/j.isjel.20220105.09.

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Different approaches to determining the status of words of semantics state in modern linguistics are analyzed, the partial lexical potential of words of semantics state is outlined, the morphological and semantic features of words of semantics state in English are described, the attempt to divide words of semantics state into lexical-semantic groups is made in the article. It was noted that words of semantics state give a description of natural phenomena, physical and mental states of man, the core of words of semantics state in English is predicative adjectives in the predicate function. The basis of the study of words of semantics state in English is morphological features. The morphological characteristics of words of semantics state were singled out. It was found that morphologically words of semantics of the state are derived from adjectives, nouns and Participles II. Human perception is the basis in the division of words of semantics state into lexical and semantic groups. The growth of words of semantics state in English is due to the transition to them other parts of speech.
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Paulsen, Geda. "Keel meeles: kontseptuaalsest semantikast." Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 4, no. 1 (June 19, 2013): 73–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2013.4.1.05.

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Kontseptuaalne semantika on kognitiivse suunitlusega keeleteaduse haru, mille eesmärgiks on välja töötada teooria keele toimimisest tajusüsteemi osana. Kontseptuaalset semantikat iseloomustab pürgimus erinevate keelega seotud kognitiivsete alasüsteemide ja nendevaheliste seoste võimalikult täpse formaalse analüüsi suunas. Käesolev artikkel annab ülevaate kontseptuaalse semantika peamistest teoreetilistest seisukohtadest ning nende metodoloogilisest väljendusviisist, asetades teooria üldisemasse keeleteaduslikku konteksti. Tutvustan lähemalt soome keeleteadlase Urpo Nikanne kontseptuaalse semantika tierneti mudeli metodoloogiat, mille abil analüüsin eesti ja soome keele neutraalsete liikumisverbide minema ja mennä/lähteä leksikaalset kontseptuaalset struktuuri ning nn sujumiskonstruktsioonide (X läheb hästi/lörri) semantikat.Language in mind: about conceptual semantics. This paper discusses the framework of conceptual semantics and its methodological solutions for the semantic analysis. The conceptual semantics theory, based on the ideas of Ray Jackendoff, strives for an integration of the psychological reality of linguistic information with other linguistic faculties. The article discusses the central theoretical assumptions and aims of this theory and also gives a brief presentation of the basic methodology of Urpo Nikanne’s tiernet model of conceptual semantics. The tiernet technology is the basis for the analysis of the lexical conceptual structure of the Finnish neutral motion verbs mennä ‘go’ and lähteä ‘go from a place’ as well as of the Estonian counterpart minema ‘go’. Two “(un)success-constructions” in connection with these verbs are also discussed.
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Sun, Ying. "Artificial Intelligence Method for Accurate Translation of Fuzzy Semantics in English Language and Literature." International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 19, no. 1 (September 27, 2023): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijswis.331033.

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In order to address the drawbacks of semantic ambiguity, inaccurate quantifiers, and low translation accuracy in traditional grammar-based translation methods, this paper proposes an artificial intelligence translation method based on semantic analysis for English fuzzy semantics. Firstly, a comprehensive analysis of English language semantics was carried out from different semantic levels such as language, knowledge, and pragmatics, and the key points of fuzzy semantics were identified. Then, key feature quantities for accurate translation of fuzzy semantics in English vocabulary and literature were constructed, and artificial intelligence methods were used to optimize fuzzy semantics. The experimental results show that the proposed method can avoid semantic understanding ambiguity and improve the accuracy of English language translation.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Semantics"

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Azevedo, Terceiro Antonio Soares de. "Semantics for an algebraic specification language." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/8126.

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Prosoft é um grupo de pesquisa do Instituto de Informática da UFRGS, desenvolvido pelo grupo de pesquisa homônimo e coordenado pelo Professor Daltro José Nunes. O objetivo do projeto é desenvolver um ambiente de desenvolvimento de software completo, o Ambiente Prosoft, que é baseado nos conceitos de Modelos, Cálculo Lambda, Tipos Abstratos de Dados e Orientação a Objetos. Um dos componentes do Ambiente Prosoft é sua linguagem de especificação algébrica: o Prosoft Algébrico. Apesar de ser base e tema de diversos trabalhos no grupo de pesquisa Prosoft, o Prosoft Algébrico não tem sua semântica devidamente definida. Os trabalhos desenvolvidos até agora foram baseados em noções operacionais, e apresentam diferentes interpretações do Prosoft Algébrico. Esta dissertação apresenta uma especificação de semântica denotacional para o Prosoft Algébrico, compreendendo, entre outras características, sua primitiva de comunicação entre tipos de dados, chamada ICS, e sua notação gráfica para representação de instanciação de tipos abstratos de dados. Essa dissertação apresenta também um estudo sobre prototipação semântica usando a linguagem de programação Haskell. O conceito de Literate Programming e a proximidade entre Cálculo Lambda e Haskell foram cruciais no rápido desenvolvimento de uma implementação protótipo do Prosoft Algébrico, baseada na sua semântica especificada. As principais contribuições dessa dissertação incluem: uma interpretação precisa e sem ambiguidades do Prosoft Algébrico, através da especificação da sua semântica; a definição de semântica para a ICS, um conceito único (até o limite do nosso conhecimento) que fornece um mecanismo de passagem de mensagens entre tipos de dados algébricos; uma implementação protótipo do Prosoft Algébrico, que pode realmente ser utilizada para experimentar e testar a definição da linguagem e a especificação da semântica do Prosoft Algébrico; resultados sobre prototipação semântica de especificações tanto de semântica denotacional quanto de semântica operacional usando a linguagem de programação Haskell para desenvolvimento rápido de protótipos de linguagens baseados na sua semântica. Como grande parte do desenvolvimento do Ambiente Prosoft é realizado através de projetos de cooperação internacional e essa dissertação irá influenciar fortemente o seu desenvolvimento futuro, o texto foi escrito em inglês para facilitar a troca de informação entre o grupo Prosoft e seus parceiros estrangeiros.
Prosoft is a research project at Instituto de Informática da UFRGS, developed by the research group with the same name and coordinated by Professor Daltro José Nunes. The project’s goal is to develop a full software development environment, the Prosoft Environment, based on the concepts of Models, Lambda Calculus, Abstract Data Types and Object orientation. One of the components of the Prosoft Environment is its algebraic specification language: Algebraic Prosoft. Although being the basis and theme of several works in the Prosoft research group, Algebraic Prosoft doesn’t have its semantics properly defined. Works done up to now were based on operational notions and presented different interpretations of Algebraic Prosoft. This thesis presents a denotational semantics specification for Algebraic Prosoft, comprising, among other features, its “inter-data type” communication primitive, called ICS, and its graphical notation for representing instantiations of abstract data types. This thesis also presents a study of semantic prototyping using the Haskell programming language. The concept of Literate Programing and the proximity between lambda calculus and Haskell were crucial to the rapid development of a prototype implementation of Algebraic Prosoft, based on its specified semantics. This thesis’ main contributions include: a precise and unambiguous interpretation of Algebraic Prosoft, through a semantics specification; the definition of semantics to the ICS, a unique (to the best of our knowledge) concept that provides a messagepassing mechanism between algebraic data types; a prototype implementation of Algebraic Prosoft, which can actually be used to experiment and test the Algebraic Prosoft language definition and semantics specification; results regarding semantics prototyping of both denotational and operational semantics specifications using the Haskell programming language for rapid development of semantics-based prototypes of languages. Since a large portion of Prosoft Environment’s development is done through international cooperation projects and this thesis will strongly influence its future development, the text was written in English in order to facilitate the information exchange between the Prosoft research group and its foreign partners.
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Verspoor, Cornelia M. "Contextually-dependent lexical semantics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/515.

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This thesis is an investigation of phenomena at the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with the aim of arguing for a view of semantic interpretation as lexically driven yet contextually dependent. I examine regular, generative processes which operate over the lexicon to induce verbal sense shifts, and discuss the interaction of these processes with the linguistic or discourse context. I concentrate on phenomena where only an interaction between all three linguistic knowledge sources can explain the constraints on verb use: conventionalised lexical semantic knowledge constrains productive syntactic processes, while pragmatic reasoning is both constrained by and constrains the potential interpretations given to certain verbs. The phenomena which are closely examined are the behaviour of PP sentential modifiers (specifically dative and directional PPs) with respect to the lexical semantic representation of the verb phrases they modify, resultative constructions, and logical metonymy. The analysis is couched in terms of a lexical semantic representation drawing on Davis (1995), Jackendoff (1983, 1990), and Pustejovsky (1991, 1995) which aims to capture “linguistically relevant” components of meaning. The representation is shown to have utility for modeling of the interaction between the syntactic form of an utterance and its meaning. I introduce a formalisation of the representation within the framework of Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Pollard and Sag 1994), and rely on the model of discourse coherence proposed by Lascarides and Asher (1992), Discourse in Commonsense Entailment. I furthermore discuss the implications of the contextual dependency of semantic interpretation for lexicon design and computational processing in Natural Language Understanding systems.
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Endriss, Cornelia, Stefan Hinterwimmer, and Stavros Skopeteas. "Semantics." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2226/.

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The guidelines for semantics comprise a number of layers related to quantificational structures as well as some crucial semantic properties of NPs with respect to information structure: definiteness, countability, and animacy.
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Vecchi, Eva Maria. "Distributional semantic phrases vs. semantic distributional nonsense: Adjective Modification in Compositional Distributional Semantics." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/369284.

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In this thesis, I study the ability of compositional distributional semantics to model adjective modification. I present three studies that explore the degree to which semantic intuitions are grounded in the distributional representations of adjective-noun phrases, as well as provide insight into various linguistic phenomena by extracting unsupervised cues from these distributional representations. First, I investigate degrees of adjective modification. I contrast three types of adjectival modifiers – intersectively used color terms, subsectively used color terms, and intensional adjectives – and test the ability of different composition strategies to model their behavior. Next, I propose an approach to characterize semantic deviance of composite expressions using distributional semantic methods. I present a set of simple measures extracted from distributional representations of words and phrases, and show that they are more significant in determining the acceptability of novel adjective-noun phrases than measures classically employed in studies of compound processing. Finally, I use compositional distributional semantic methods to investigate restrictions in adjective ordering. Specifically, I focus on properties distinguishing adjective-adjective-noun phrases in which there is flexibility in the adjective ordering from those bound to a rigid order. I explore a number of measures extracted from the distributional representation of such phrases which may indicate a word order restriction. Overall, this work provides strong support for compositional distributional semantics, as it is able to generalize and capture the complex semantic intuition of natural language speakers for adjective-noun phrases, even without being able to rely on co-occurrence relations between the constituents.
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Vecchi, Eva Maria. "Distributional semantic phrases vs. semantic distributional nonsense: Adjective Modification in Compositional Distributional Semantics." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2013. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/1060/1/EMVecchi_Thesis.pdf.

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In this thesis, I study the ability of compositional distributional semantics to model adjective modification. I present three studies that explore the degree to which semantic intuitions are grounded in the distributional representations of adjective-noun phrases, as well as provide insight into various linguistic phenomena by extracting unsupervised cues from these distributional representations. First, I investigate degrees of adjective modification. I contrast three types of adjectival modifiers – intersectively used color terms, subsectively used color terms, and intensional adjectives – and test the ability of different composition strategies to model their behavior. Next, I propose an approach to characterize semantic deviance of composite expressions using distributional semantic methods. I present a set of simple measures extracted from distributional representations of words and phrases, and show that they are more significant in determining the acceptability of novel adjective-noun phrases than measures classically employed in studies of compound processing. Finally, I use compositional distributional semantic methods to investigate restrictions in adjective ordering. Specifically, I focus on properties distinguishing adjective-adjective-noun phrases in which there is flexibility in the adjective ordering from those bound to a rigid order. I explore a number of measures extracted from the distributional representation of such phrases which may indicate a word order restriction. Overall, this work provides strong support for compositional distributional semantics, as it is able to generalize and capture the complex semantic intuition of natural language speakers for adjective-noun phrases, even without being able to rely on co-occurrence relations between the constituents.
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Soni, Maya. "Semantics in speech production." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/semantics-in-speech-production(c446ac01-7c32-468a-816b-04993347e135).html.

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The semantic system contributes to the process of speech production in two major ways. The basic information is contained within semantic representations, and the semantic control system manipulates that knowledge as required by task and context. This thesis explored the evidence for interactivity between semantic and phonological stages of speech production, and examined the role of semantic control within speech production. The data chapters focussed on patients with semantic aphasia or SA, who all have frontal and/or temporoparietal lesions and are thought to have a specific impairment of semantic control. In a novel development, grammatical class and cueing effects in this patient group were compared with healthy participants under tempo naming conditions, a paradigm which is thought to impair normal semantic control by imposing dual task conditions. A basic picture naming paradigm was used throughout, with the addition of different grammatical classes, correct and misleading phonemic cues, and repetition and semantic priming: all these manipulations could be expected to place differing loads on a semantic control system with either permanent or experimentally induced impairment. It was found that stimuli requiring less controlled processing such as high imageability objects, pictures with simultaneous correct cues or repetition primed pictures were named significantly more accurately than items which needed more controlled processing, such as low imageability actions, pictures with misleading phonemic cues and unprimed pictures. The cueing evidence offered support to interactive models of speech production where phonological activation is able to influence semantic selection. The impairment in tasks such as the inhibition of task-irrelevant material seen in SA patients and tempo participants, and the overlap between cortical areas cited in studies looking at both semantic and wider executive control mechanisms suggest that semantic control may be part of a more generalised executive system.
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Fass, D. "Collative semantics : A semantics for natural language processing." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383507.

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Neumaier, Sebastian, and Axel Polleres. "Geo-Semantic Labelling of Open Data. SEMANTiCS 2018-14th International Conference on Semantic Systems." Elsevier, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6452/1/neum%2Dpoll%2D2018SEMANTiCS.pdf.

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In the past years Open Data has become a trend among governments to increase transparency and public engagement by opening up national, regional, and local datasets. However, while many of these datasets come in semi-structured file formats, they use di ff erent schemata and lack geo-references or semantically meaningful links and descriptions of the corresponding geo-entities. We aim to address this by detecting and establishing links to geo-entities in the datasets found in Open Data catalogs and their respective metadata descriptions and link them to a knowledge graph of geo-entities. This knowledge graph does not yet readily exist, though, or at least, not a single one: so, we integrate and interlink several datasets to construct our (extensible) base geo-entities knowledge graph: (i) the openly available geospatial data repository GeoNames, (ii) the map service OpenStreetMap, (iii) country-specific sets of postal codes, and (iv) the European Union's classification system NUTS. As a second step, this base knowledge graph is used to add semantic labels to the open datasets, i.e., we heuristically disambiguate the geo-entities in CSV columns using the context of the labels and the hierarchical graph structure of our base knowledge graph. Finally, in order to interact with and retrieve the content, we index the datasets and provide a demo user interface. Currently we indexed resources from four Open Data portals, and allow search queries for geo-entities as well as full-text matches at http://data.wu.ac.at/odgraph/ .
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Loebe, Frank. "Ontological Semantics." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-166326.

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The original and still a major purpose of ontologies in computer and information sciences is to serve for the semantic integration of represented content, facilitating information system interoperability. Content can be data, information, and knowledge, and it can be distributed within or across these categories. A myriad of languages is available for representation. Ontologies themselves are artifacts which are expressed in various languages. Different such languages are utilized today, including, as well-known representatives, predicate logic, subsuming first-order (predicate) logic (FOL), in particular, and higher-order (predicate) logic (HOL); the Web Ontology Language (OWL) on the basis of description logics (DL); and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). We focus primarily on languages with formally defined syntax and semantics. This overall picture immediately suggests questions of the following kinds: What is the relationship between an ontology and the language in which it is formalized? Especially, what is the impact of the formal semantics of the language on the formalized ontology? How well understood is the role of ontologies in semantic integration? Can the same ontology be represented in multiple languages and/or in distinct ways within one language? Is there an adequate understanding of whether two expressions are intensionally/conceptually equivalent and whether two ontologies furnish the same ontological commitments? One may assume that these questions are resolved. Indeed, the development and adoption of ontologies is widespread today. Ontologies are authored in a broad range of different languages, including offering equally named ontologies in distinct languages. Much research is devoted to techniques and technologies that orbit ontologies, for example, ontology matching, modularization, learning, and evolution, to name a few. Ontologies have found numerous beneficial applications, and hundreds of ontologies have been created, considering solely the context of biomedical research. For us, these observations increase the relevance of the stated questions and close relatives thereof, and raise the desire for solid theoretical underpinnings. In the literature of computer and information sciences, we have found only few approaches that tackle the foundations of ontologies and their representation to allow for answering such questions or that actually answer them. We elaborate an analysis of the subject as the first item of central contributions within this thesis. It mainly results in the identification of a vicious circularity in (i) the intended use of ontologies to mediate between formal representations and (ii) solely exploiting formal semantic notions in representing ontologies and defining ontology-based equivalence as a form of intensional/conceptual equivalence. On this basis and in order to overcome its identified limitations, we contribute a general model-theoretic semantic account, named \\\"ontological semantics\\\". This kind of semantics takes the approach of assigning arbitrary entities as referents of atomic symbols and to link syntactic constructions with corresponding ontological claims and commitments. In particular, ontological semantics targets the avoidance of encoding effects in its definition. Therefore we argue that this semantic account is well suited for interpreting formalized ontologies and for defining languages for the representation of ontologies. It is further proposed as a fundament for envisioned novel definitions of the intensional equivalence of expressions, in potential deviation from only being formally equivalent under set-theoretic semantics. The thesis is defended that a particular usage of a formalism and its respective vocabulary should be accompanied by establishing an ontological semantics that is tailored to that use of the formalism, in parallel to the formal semantics of the language, in order to capture the ontological content of the formal representation for adequate reuse in other formalisms. Accordingly, we advocate ontological semantics as a useful framework for justifying translations on an intensional basis. Despite all deviations of ontological semantics from its set-theoretic blueprint, close relationships between the two can be shown, which allow for using established FOL and DL reasoners while assuming ontological semantics.
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Carrigan, Raymond Sidney John. "General semantics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18080.

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Books on the topic "Semantics"

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Dietmar, Zaefferer, ed. Semantic universals and universal semantics. Berlin: Foris Publications, 1991.

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Ashish, Naveen, and Amit P. Sheth, eds. Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9446-2.

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Eckardt, Regine. Formale diachrone Semantik =: Formal diachronic semantics. Konstanz: Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Konstanz, 1998.

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Cimiano, Philipp, Oscar Corcho, Valentina Presutti, Laura Hollink, and Sebastian Rudolph, eds. The Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8.

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Meersman, Robert. Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1999.

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Kornai, András. Semantics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65645-8.

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Maienborn, Claudia, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner, eds. Semantics. Berlin, Boston: DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110226614.

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Kearns, Kate. Semantics. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2.

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Kearns, Kate. Semantics. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Kearns, Kate. Semantics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Semantics"

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Creus, Imma, and Joan Julià-Muné. "Neologismes semantics / Semantic change." In IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 179–205. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.7.10cre.

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Soames, Scott. "Semantics and Semantic Competence." In Cognition and Representation, 185–207. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429042553-13.

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Kearns, Kate. "Introduction." In Semantics, 1–23. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_1.

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Kearns, Kate. "Thematic Roles and Lexical Conceptual Structure." In Semantics, 206–40. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_10.

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Kearns, Kate. "Events." In Semantics, 241–56. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_11.

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Kearns, Kate. "Basic Logical Tools." In Semantics, 24–44. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_2.

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Kearns, Kate. "The Logical Quantifiers." In Semantics, 45–56. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_3.

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Kearns, Kate. "Formal Composition." In Semantics, 57–78. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_4.

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Kearns, Kate. "Modality and Possible Worlds." In Semantics, 79–93. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_5.

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Kearns, Kate. "Generalized Quantifiers." In Semantics, 94–133. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-35609-2_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Semantics"

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Blümel, Lydia, and Matthias Thimm. "Approximating Weakly Preferred Semantics in Abstract Argumentation through Vacuous Reduct Semantics." In 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning {KR-2023}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/kr.2023/11.

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We consider the recently introduced vacuous reduct semantics in abstract argumentation that allows the composition of arbitrary argumentation semantics through the notion of the reduct. We show that by recursively applying the principle of vacuous reduct semantics we are able to cover a broad range of semantical approaches. Our main result shows that we can recover the weakly preferred semantics as the unique solution of a fixed point equation involving an infinite application of the vacuous reduct semantics based only on the very simple property of conflict-freeness. We also conduct an extensive study of the computational complexity of the recursive application of vacuous reduct semantics, which shows that it completely covers each level of the polynomial hierarchy, depending on the recursion depth.
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Grover, Ishaan, Hae Won Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. "A Semantics-based Model for Predicting Children's Vocabulary." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/188.

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Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) provide educational benefits through one-on-one tutoring by assessing children's existing knowledge and providing tailored educational content. In the domain of language acquisition, several studies have shown that children often learn new words by forming semantic relationships with words they already know. In this paper, we present a model that uses word semantics (semantics-based model) to make inferences about a child's vocabulary from partial information about their existing vocabulary knowledge. We show that the proposed semantics-based model outperforms models that do not use word semantics (semantics-free models) on average. A subject-level analysis of results reveals that different models perform well for different children, thus motivating the need to combine predictions. To this end, we use two methods to combine predictions from semantics-based and semantics-free models and show that these methods yield better predictions of a child's vocabulary knowledge. Our results motivate the use of semantics-based models to assess children's vocabulary knowledge and build ITS that maximizes children's semantic understanding of words.
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Allen, James, and Choh Man Teng. "Putting Semantics into Semantic Roles." In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/s18-2028.

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Barbuta, Ion. "Verb Semantics and Actantial Structures in Romanian." In Conferință științifică internațională "Filologia modernă: realizări şi perspective în context european". “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/filomod.2022.16.19.

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The article analyses the relationship between the semantic structure and the actantial structure of Romanian verbs. To illustrate these relationships, the semantic classes of verbs were described in relation to the type of actantial structure that characterizes them. The language facts examined show a close connection between the semantic formula and the actantial structure of the verb. Having a bidirectional character, the given relationship is manifested both as an influence of the semantic structure on the actantial structure, and from the opposite direction. Some observations concern the relations established between the semantics of the verb and its actants.
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Lam, Patrick, Jens Dietrich, and David J. Pearce. "Putting the semantics into semantic versioning." In SPLASH '20: Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications, Software for Humanity. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3426428.3426922.

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Wang, Tao, and Bipin Desai. "Extracting Document Semantics for Semantic Header." In 2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccece.2006.277719.

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Rapaport, William J. "Meinongian semantics for propositional semantic networks." In the 23rd annual meeting. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/981210.981216.

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Xolmanova, Zulxumor. "BABUR IS A MASTEREXPERT IN SEMANTICS." In The Impact of Zahir Ad-Din Muhammad Bobur’s Literary Legacy on the Advancement of Eastern Statehood and Culture. Alisher Navoi' Tashkent state university of Uzbek language and literature, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52773/bobur.conf.2023.25.09/rdwz6225.

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There are a number of factors contributing to the popularity of Babur’s personality and creativity. One of them is the creator’s deep understanding of the meaning of lexical units and their skillful use. Words and phraseological units expressing the picture of the world, reality, image and character of historical figures show the semantics and lexical capabilities of the Old Uzbek language of the era of Babur.Babur’s linguistic ability, mastery of the semantics of lexical units and the ability to express a number of semantic units ensured the attractiveness and originality of the language of Babur’s works, in particular the language of “Baburnama”.The article reveals Babur’s ability as an expert-master of semantics and thinker through the analysis of a number of lexical units that are characteristic of the text “Baburnama”.
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Heyninck, Jesse, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Tjitze Rienstra, Kenneth Skiba, and Matthias Thimm. "Possibilistic Logic Underlies Abstract Dialectical Frameworks." In Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-22}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/368.

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Abstract dialectical frameworks (in short, ADFs) are one of the most general and unifying approaches to formal argumentation. As the semantics of ADFs are based on three-valued interpretations, we ask which monotonic three-valued logic allows to capture the main semantic concepts underlying ADFs. We show that possibilistic logic is the unique logic that can faithfully encode all other semantical concepts for ADFs. Based on this result, we also characterise strong equivalence and introduce possibilistic ADFs.
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Charalambidis, Angelos, Antonis Troumpoukis, and Stasinos Konstantopoulos. "SemaGrow." In SEMANTiCS '15: 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2814864.2814886.

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Reports on the topic "Semantics"

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Gunter, Carl A., Peter D. Mosses, and Dana S. Scott. Semantic Domains and Denotational Semantics. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, February 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada220285.

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Janifer, Ercelle M., and Edward A. Brown. Acquisition Semantics. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada236193.

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Fielding, R., M. Nottingham, and J. Reschke, eds. HTTP Semantics. RFC Editor, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/rfc9110.

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Fielding, R., M. Nottingham, and J. Reschke, eds. HTTP Semantics. RFC Editor, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/rfc9110.

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Suni, Niranjan. Core Semantics for Public Ontologies. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, August 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada437852.

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Tetreault, Joel, and James Allen. Semantics, Dialogue, and Reference Resolution. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada454766.

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Stiemerling, M., J. Quittek, and T. Taylor. Middlebox Communications (MIDCOM) Protocol Semantics. RFC Editor, February 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/rfc3989.

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Stiemerling, M., J. Quittek, and T. Taylor. Middlebox Communication (MIDCOM) Protocol Semantics. RFC Editor, March 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/rfc5189.

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Mosko, M., I. Solis, and C. Wood. Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) Semantics. RFC Editor, July 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/rfc8569.

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Moore, Robert C. Knowledge Representation and Natural-Language Semantics. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada181422.

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