We describe an approach to classifying word senses and semantic roles that focuses on the entailments that can be drawn from sentences. A key observation is that entailments arise from sentences, not word senses, and by taking a compositional approach to deriving entailments, we can significantly simplify the number of senses that are required. In addition, we argue that most uses of semantic r...

New research activities sailing under the brands of semantic web, semantic web service, and semantic computing have extended, and partly also confused the classical meaning of the term semantics as the software engineering community established it in the last century. In this article we try to shed some light on the different connotations of meaning with this word. We reflect on the role of sem...

This study aims to develop techniques for the meaning acquisition of the NL phrases. Our approach is based on modeling meaning extraction by analyzing lexical component, syntactic component and semantic component of the phrases written or spoken in NL. To assure necessary semantic precision we adopt a double-level interpretation of the NL phrases using formal language with well defined semantic...

In order to examine the influence exerted by an irrelevant semantic variable in a comparative judgment task, we employed a Stroop-like paradigm. The stimuli were pairs of animal names that were different in their physical and semantic sizes (e.g., ant lion). Participants were asked to judge which of the two words was larger either in physical or in semantic size. Size congruity effect (i.e., fa...