PPT-Semantics REFERENCE & SENSE

Meaning One concern of Semantics is the analysis of meaning Meaning G Leech British linguist G Leech classified meaning into CONCEPTUAL MEANING ASSOCIATIVE MEANING . D Information furnished by Analog Devices is believed to be accurate and reliable However no responsibility is assumed by Analog Devices for its use nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use Slides adapted from Dan Jurafsky, Jim Martin and Chris Manning. Three Perspectives on Meaning. Lexical Semantics. The meanings of . individual words. Formal Semantics. (or Compositional Semantics or Sentential Semantics). Friedrich Ludwig . Gottlob. . Frege. . (b. 1848, d. 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who worked at the University of Jena. . Frege. essentially reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system which, in effect, constituted the first ‘. LIN1180/LIN5082 . Semantics. Lecture 2. Goals of this lecture. Semantics -- LIN 1180. To introduce some of the central concepts that semanticists use in their work.. To delve a little deeper into the notions of . Katie Welch, PhD. LING3311-001. How do we know what words mean?. When we want to know what a word means, we often turn a familiar source—the dictionary. . Why is the dictionary not a sufficient method for determining meaning? . LIN 1180 – Semantics. Lecture7. Ambiguity and vagueness. Continuation from last week. Ambiguity vs. Vagueness (I). In context, a word can seem to have several distinct senses. Some may appear more related than others.. Slides adapted from Dan Jurafsky, Jim Martin and Chris Manning. Three Perspectives on Meaning. Lexical Semantics. The meanings of . individual words. Formal Semantics. (or Compositional Semantics or Sentential Semantics). SVEM21 . 3. Structuralist Semantics. Jordan Zlatev. 1. General characteristics. Semantic approaches can be:. Onomasilogical. . (from concept/domain to lexeme) vs. . semasiological. . (from lexeme to concept/meaning). MEANING, THOUGHT and REALITY. 2.1 Intro – TERMINOLOGY (referring, denoting). 2.2 REFERENCE. 2.3 REFERENCE as a THEORY OF MEANING. 2.4 MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS. 2.5 WORDS, CONCEPTS and THINKING. John I. Saeed – Chapter II. Dan Jurafsky. Stanford University. Lecture 2: Word Sense Disambiguation. Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Given . A. . word in . context . A fixed inventory of potential word . senses. Decide which sense of the word this . What does this mean?. Meaning. From the lowly . phone. through the . morph. , the . phrase. , and the . clause. : . NPs & VPs label meaning at a very general level; . grammatical relations (Actor/. Dan Jurafsky. Stanford University. Introduction and Course Overview. What is Computational Lexical Semantics. Any computational process involving word meaning!. Computing . Word Similarity . Distributional (Vector) Models of . Historical semantics. It was noted earlier that that the term semantics was first used to refer to the development and change of meaning.. The great . A. merican linguist, Bloomfield (1933:427-7) , noted a number of types , each given a traditional name as shown below:. Structuralism is a very general movement , . general movement, or attitude, in twentieth-century thought, which has influenced many academic disciplines. It has been especially influential in the social sciences and in linguistics, semiotics and literary criticism.