Research investigating hemispheric asymmetries in meaning selection using homophonic homographs (e.g., bank), suggests that the left hemisphere (LH) quickly selects contextually relevant meanings, whereas the right hemisphere (RH) maintains a broader spectrum of meanings including those that are contextually irrelevant (e.g., Faust & Chiarello, 1998). The present study investigated cerebral asy...

In this paper, we are mainly concerned with the ability to quickly and automa cally dis nguish word senses in dynamic seman c spaces in which new terms and new senses appear frequently. Such spaces are built “on the fly” from constantly evolving data sets such as Wikipedia, repositories of patent grants and applica ons, or large sets of legal documents for Technology Assisted Review and e-disco...

In this paper, we intend to establish a unified semantics to interpret generics and metaphors. We argue that they have much in common beyond their apparent differences, and that there is no firm line separating the two. This work is carried out in a four-layer semantic structure for concepts. Each layer matches up with semantic entities of a certain type in Montague’s intensional semantics. We ...

OBJECTIVE A new grandparent identity measure is constructed that allows us to compare grandparent identity meanings with the meanings of other adult identities and to investigate the relationships between identities and well-being. METHODS Data were collected in 1997 from 203 older grandmothers and grandfathers living in a metropolitan area. Grandparent and parent identity meanings are measur...

The world is too complex to manage without radical functional simplification. Meaning appears to exist as the basis for such simplification. The meaning that guides functional simplification may be usefully considered as consisting of three classes. The first class consists of meanings of the determinate world. These are meanings based in motivation, emotion, and personal and social identity. F...

Unlike homophonous meanings, which are semantically unrelated (e.g., the use of bat to refer to a baseball bat and a flying rodent), polysemous meanings are systematically related to one another (e.g., the use of book, CD, and video to refer to physical objects, as in 'the leather book', or to the intellectual content they contain, as in 'the profound book'). But do perceived relations among po...

We compare three approaches to compositional semantics for words that are modeled (in part) using perceptual classifiers: ”meanings as sets”, ”meanings as transparent functions”, and ”meanings as opaque functions”. The approaches are evaluated according to whether they fulfill a set of desiderata, including dealing with non-intersective compositionality, working with state of the art classifier...

Apparent actions We assume that a passive observer perceives a sequence S of sensor values (s1, ..., sT ) with T ∈ N. At each instance t of the sequence, the observer has a memory or knowledge state mt which gives us a second sequence M = (m1, ...,mT ). The memory state of the agent might contain models of the observations or not. In the course of a sequence S there is an apparent action for ob...