In this paper, a computational model of a successful negotiated communication system is presented, in which language agents develop their own meanings in response to their environment and attempt to infer the meanings of others’ utterances. The inherent uncertainty in the process of meaning inference in the system leads to variation in the agents’ internal semantic representations, which then i...

This paper addresses one of the fundamental problems of the philosophy of information: How does semantic information emerge within the underlying dynamics of the world? dynamical semantic information problem. It suggests that the canonical approach to semantic information that de nes data before meaning and meaning before use is inadequate for pre-cognitive information media. Instead, we should...

Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks (MultiNet) have been developed along the general line of semantic networks (SN) for the semantic representation of large stocks of natural language information. They allow for a very differentiated meaning representation of natural language expressions and an adequate modelling of cognitive structures. MultiNet has been used for the semantic characterizat...

Recent work in Ontology learning and Text mining has mainly focused on engineering methods to solve practical problem. In this thesis, we investigate methods that can substantially improve a wide range of existing approaches by minimizing the underlying problem: The Semantic Gap between formalized meaning and human cognition. We deploy OWL as a Meaning Representation Language and create a unifi...

This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is highly contested, and suggest that this arises from two main considerations: 1) there are a number of logically distinct categories of place expression, which are not always clearly distinguished in discourse about ‘place’; 2) the m...

The article is devoted to the study of the evaluative component of the meaning of lexical means used to describe relations between family members in the novel “In Chancery” by J. Galsworthy. The relevance of t &he study can be attributed to the lack of works devoted to this problem. As the results of our study demonstrate, the words of the lexical-semantic group “family” were mainly used to ver...

this paper studies the semantic contribution of –e suffix based on lieber (2004). this theory using seven semantic features and a principle called coindexation principle studies the semantic contribution of lexical items and their function in compounding, derivation and conversion. in this theory each lexical item even affixes have a semantic skeleton and a semantic body. each affix has to have...