The work presented here is a preliminary sn~y concerning the automatic translation of French natural language statements into the RESEDA semantic metalanguage. The text in natural language is first (pre)processed in order to obtain its syntactic structure. The "semantic parsing" process begins with marking the "triggers", defined as lexical units which call one or more of the predicative patter...

This paper argues that “YOU” and “I” (“I” “THOU”) are fundamental elements of human thought, present as distinct words (or signs) in all languages. I first developed this thesis my 1976 article “In defense YOU ME” (and before that, introduced it 1972 book Semantic Primitives; cf. also 2021 “‘Semantic Primitives’, fifty years later”). Since then, has been confirmed by wide-ranging cross-linguist...

Disasters occasion ways of speaking and writing in the societies which they take place. Now, due to climate change, events such as wildfires, floods heatwaves are becoming more severe frequent. Therefore, crisis poses a challenge, not only materially, but discursively. Habitual vocabulary may no longer be appropriate, there is pull between these turns phrase newer ones informed by change. The a...

Monads are a well-established tool for modelling various computational effects. They form the semantic basis of Moggi’s computational metalanguage, the metalanguage of effects for short, which made its way into modern functional programming in the shape of Haskell’s do-notation. Standard computational idioms call for specific classes of monads that support additional control operations. Here, w...

SALDO is a free full-scale modern Swedish semantic and morphological lexical resource intended primarily for use in language technology applications. In this paper we present our work on SALDO, compare it with some other lexicalsemantic resources – Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage, Princeton WordNet, and Roget-style thesauruses – and discuss some implications of the differences.

The term cultural scripts refers to a powerful new technique for articulating cultural norms, values, and practices in terms which are clear, precise, and accessible to cultural insiders and to cultural outsiders alike. This result is only possible because cultural scripts are formulated in a tightly constrained, yet expressively flexible, metalanguage consisting of simple words and grammatical...

This paper surveys languages used to enrich contextual information with semantic descriptions. Such descriptions can be e.g. applied to enable reasoning when collecting vast amounts of row data in domains like smart environments. In particular, we focus on the elements of the languages that make up their semantic. To do so, we compare the expressiveness of the well-known languages OWL, PDDL and...