semantic knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsemanticandknowledge
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semantic
adjective
uk/sɪˈmæn.tɪk/us/səˈmæn.t̬ɪk/
connected with the meanings ...
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knowledge
noun
uk/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofsemanticandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Semantic grammars were introduced as an engineering methodology, which allowssemanticknowledgeto be easily included in the system.
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From this they concluded thatsemanticknowledgeis partitioned not only into independent modules for sensory and functional knowledge, but also for input modality.
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We speculated that this concept of coresemanticknowledgemay be a victim of the more detailed specification of knowledge types that we are advocating.
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But where then does our abstract,semanticknowledgecome from if it is not separately represented in the memory system?
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It has been implicated in the learning, representation, and use of knowledge about facts (' 'semanticknowledge' ') and events (' 'episodic knowledge' ').
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A small number of categories allows a compact representation of thesemanticknowledgebase, and makes word sense disambiguation simpler.
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Expressive language and a measure ofsemanticknowledgewere the only significant predictors for the number of words children learned to produce.
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This system of constraints, mapped onto representations of the non-verbal world, yields a plausible account of one'ssemanticknowledge.
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What is the nature of oursemanticknowledgeabout different objects?
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For instance, the acquisition of syntactic categories is thought to build onsemanticknowledgecontained in the conceptual module.
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While richer ontological knowledge than thesauri is used, source descriptions have nosemanticknowledge.
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Deficits in irregular past-tense verb morphology associated with degradedsemanticknowledge.
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These populations offer unique insights into thesemanticknowledgeunderlying bilingual as well as monolingual language acquisition.
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Semantically tagging a corpus is a preliminary step to acquiring lexicalsemanticknowledgein a given application and sublanguage.
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We worry that the success of the authors' model, as it stands, is due to its limited notion ofsemanticknowledge.
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