It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...

Use 'semantic gradients' to turn vocabulary study into a shared thinking activity that explores the subtle differences ...

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 ...

There are different ways to be a good reader. There has been much discussion over the years about some readers having more of a sound-based style and others having more of a meaning-based style. But ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...

We will discuss word embeddings this week. Word embeddings represent a fundamental shift in natural language processing (NLP) ...

Semantics is the study of the meaning behind words and phrases. The study of semantics focuses on how words relate to each other and to how the listener decodes the message. Advertisers who employ ...