Abstract In linguistic communication, the speaker’s utterance simultaneously generates several levels of meaning related to Grice’s distinction between what is said and implicated. Yet, there a lively debate about two notions. This study gives general overview three schools: Semantic Minimalism, Radical Contextualism, Moderate Contextualism. After surveying current controversies in these theori...

Meaning conveyance is bottlenecked by the linguistic conventions shared among interlocutors. One possibility to convey non-conventionalized meaning is to employ known expressions in such a way that the intended meaning can be abduced from them. This, in turn, can give rise to ambiguity. We investigate this process with a focus on its use for semantic coordination and show it to be conducive to ...

Iconography is the domain of understanding the meaning of historical visual artworks. A formalization of iconographic knowledge can provide a basis for a semi-automatic description of what the content shown on a historical image means without the need for a domain expert. Semantic Web standards can be applied for an iconographic knowledge representation using multiple levels of expressiveness t...

to complete “the use theory of meaning”, paul horwich put forward a new thesis upon which some usages of a word have explanatory role and justify the overall use-regularities of that word. these specific usages have a basic acceptance property which makes them believable in user’s belief system and, like a semantic axiom, make other usages justified. but, there are still some usages that cannot...

Hiermit erkläre ich, dass ich diese Arbeit selbstständig verfasst habe und keine anderen als die angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel verwendet habe. Abstract Semantic space models are computational representations of word meaning based on co‐occurrence counts from large corpus data. This means that the meaning of each word is described by the contexts in which it occurs. Although these data‐dri...

This work deals with the quantification of the effects of discarding large amounts of irrelevant information in sets of images. In particular, the trade-off between the cost of losing information and the benefit of increasing perceptual speed is examined. We look for a measure of such trade-off by a new measure, 'semantic intensity', broadly defined as the ratio of amount of 'meaning' conveyed ...

Semantic Representation 2 This chapter deals with how word meaning is represented by speakers of a language, reviewing psychological perspectives on the representation of meaning. We start by outlining four key issues in the investigation of word meaning, then we introduce current theories of semantics and we end with a brief discussion of new directions. Meaning representation has long interes...

different symmetries play a role in understanding the meaning of a sentence. syntacticians have been aware of this issue and have used a variety of symmetries in their analyses. when the arabic syntax became familiar with the aristotelian logic and received some philosophical issues, most of the syntacticians focused upon the arabic symmetry and few attentions were directed towards other symmet...