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SEMANTICS
Semantic is the study of meaning. It is a wide subject within the general study of language. It
is the study of the relationship between sign and symbol and what they represent. symbol is
something which we use to represent another thing - it might be a picture, a letter, a spoken or
written word - anything we use conventionally for the purpose.
Example symbol : the city flowers is Bandung.
It is important for understanding language in social contexts , as these are likely to affect
meaning, and for understanding varieties of English and effects of style. It is thus one of the most
fundamental concepts in linguistics. The study of semantics includes the study of how meaning
is constructed, interpreted, clarified, obscured, illustrated, simplified negotiated, contradicted and
paraphrased.
1. Interpreted
an important component in dialog systems . It is related to natural language understanding, but
mostly its refers to the last stage of understanding. Although the results of semantic interpretation
are describing the meaning of a natural language utterance, the current specification does not
specifically generate such information in the Natural Language Semantics Markup Language for
the Speech Interface Framework . semantic interpretation we mean the process of mapping a
syntactically analyzed text of natural language to a representation of its meaning. The input to a
semantic interpreter is a parse tree, but we do not require that it represent a complete sentence;
we allow well-formed subtrecs such as noun phrases and even single words (labeled with their
syntactic category and features) as input. Thus, semantic interpretation does not include the
3. Constructed
constructed language (sometimes called a conlang ) is a language whose phonology , grammar ,
and vocabulary have been consciously devised for human or human-like communication, instead
of having developed naturally . Most commanly accepted idea about language and speech is that
they are the way of expressing the internal thought process of individual. People express what
they feel with the jeans of language and spessch. How ever contraction of language is not evoled
in a uniform way among alll the people. Many interlinguists those scholars concerned with
the study of consciously planned languages meant for international communication follow
this line of reasoning to some extent, if they defend the validity of their interest in Esperanto (cf.
Schubert 1989, Tonkin and Fettes 1996 for fairly recent overviews).