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Also known as linguistic semantics, sematology
thumb|alt=Diagram of the relation between word, object, and thought|A central topic in semantics concerns the relation between language, world, and mental concepts.|class=skin-invert-image Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction between sense and reference. Sense is given by the ideas and concepts associated with an expression while reference is the object to which an expression points. Semantics contrasts with syntax, w
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning—investigating what meaning is, how words acquire their meaning, and how the meaning of complex expressions depends on their component parts. It matters because understanding semantics helps us grasp how language connects to the world and our thoughts, including how words relate to the ideas they express and the objects they point to.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).