Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems. While linguistics concerns itself specifically with human speech, semiotics investigates " the processes and effects of the production and reproduction, reception and circulation of meaning in all forms, used by all kinds of agent[s] of communication. " 1 Semiotic thought developed into its own distinctive field of inquiry in the late-nineteenth...

I would like to present some new perspectives on the reciprocal foundational links which are discernable between general semiotics, anthroposemiotics and biosemiotics. To that end I offer an examination of the peculiar place occupied by temporal relations within the relational framework of semiotics. I support these considerations by drawing on previous work about a relational standpoint presen...

Semiotics also includes the general principles that underlie all sign systems. It is thus more comprehensive than linguistics--very much more, because there is a semiotic dimension to practically every human artifact. (Indeed, since we can 'read in' meanings to natural events, e.g., as in 'the lack of rain shows God's displeasure,' semiotics is not even limited to human artifacts.) In recent ye...

Thure von Uexküll's reputation as a pioneer in biosemiotics and also in psychosomatic medicine is well documented. It is easy to see these disciplines reflected in his notable publications, both in English and in German. However, if one spares the time to filter through all of his articles, monographs, conference papers and editorials in English and in German, a notable gap arises in his Englis...

One of the challenges in the field of content-based image retrieval is to bridge the semantic gap that exists between the information extracted from visual data using classifiers, and the interpretation of this data made by the end users. The semantic gap is a cascade of 1) the transformation of image pixels into labelled objects and 2) the semantic distance between the label used to name the c...

Umberto Eco’s admiration for Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) ... earning a living by drawing maps combined with the pleasure of knowledge given diving to history our cartographic discipline, reminded me relevant sixty-year-old text about great scientist and authentic thinker – maybe greatest Logic his time. It is based on unpublished (until then) manuscript material, in collection same name Hough...