semantic

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  1. adjective Of or relating to meaning, especially meaning in language.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or according to the science of semantics.

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  • When PC World and a host of other pop tech media zines started toasting the entrance of Google to the semantic arena, I was excited to see some cool stuff.
  • In fact many of us are excitedly contributing to a revision of the net's early indiscriminate structure called the semantic web. —  Bowblog
  • While we believe that we have the right seed for one of the next big things - that is, the semantic social network - I must say that the 'soil' or 'environment' may be just as important as the seed. —  Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism
  • It is shown in the present paper that an adequate solution will involve a complex interaction of several factors-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic-and the range of data to be accounted for is partially delineated. bushman bushmen documentary focus khoisan linguistics phonetics phonology topic typology xoo —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Now some people are calling the semantic web - web 3.0. —  Portals and KM
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  1. French sémantique, from Greek sēmantikos, significant, from sēmantos, marked, from sēmainein, sēman-, to signify, from sēma, sign.
 

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