Semantics

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Semantics (from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós) 'significant')[lower-alpha 1][1] is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and computer science.

Subfields
Computational Lexical (lexis, lexicology) Statistical Structural
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Analysis Compositionality Context (language use) Prototype theory Force dynamics Unsolved linguistics problems Semantic gap Theory of descriptions
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