A puzzle for courts and judges involves interpreting the meaning of words. The latest AI and LLMs are coming to their aid. I ...

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in the title or ...

This talk by Elisabetta Ježek presents linguistic evidence why we need a context-sensitive model of lexical semantics to account for how lexical information, cognitive knowledge, pragmatic inference ...

Half of a word's meaning is simply a three dimensional summary of the rewards associated with it, according to an analysis of millions of blog entries undertaken by researchers. We make choices about ...

It is now possible to identify the meaning of words with multiple meanings, without using their semantic context. Two physicists have now devised a method to automatically elucidate the meaning of ...

The film explores the complexities of meaning in language, highlighting three types: denotative meaning (the literal reference of a word), conceptual meaning (the ideas associated with a word), and ...