Semantic Structure Analysis (SSA) Task

A Semantic Structure Analysis (SSA) Task is a Linguistic Analysis Task that can be solved by a Semantic Analysis System that implements a Semantic Analysis Algorithm.

• AKA: Semantic Indexing Task, Semantic Analysis Task.
• Context:
  • Input: Human Processable Artifact.
  • output: Knowledge.
  • It can be:
    • a Linguistic Semantic Analysis Task, such as:
      • a Shallow Semantic Analysis Task.
    • an Image Semantic Analysis Task.
    • a Text Corpus Semantic Analysis Task.
• Example(s):
  • a Semantic Similarity Analysis Task,
  • a Latent Semantic Analysis Task,
  • a Supervised Semantic Indexing (SSI) Task,
  • a Neural Semantic Indexing Task.
  • a Semantic Annotation Task.
  • a Semantic Parsing Task.
  • a Knowledge Discovery Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Syntactic Analysis Task.
• See: Knowledge Engineering Task, Knowledge Discovery Task, Latent Semantic Indexing, Semantic Web, Semantic Network.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_analysis_(linguistics) Retrieved:2021-5-23.
  • In linguistics, semantic analysis is the process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings. It also involves removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible. The elements of idiom and figurative speech, being cultural, are often also converted into relatively invariant meanings in semantic analysis. Semantics, although related to pragmatics, is distinct in that the former deals with word or sentence choice in any given context, while pragmatics considers the unique or particular meaning derived from context or tone. To reiterate in different terms, semantics is about universally coded meaning, and pragmatics, the meaning encoded in words that is then interpreted by an audience. Semantic analysis can begin with the relationship between individual words. This requires an understanding of lexical hierarchy, including hyponymy and hypernymy, meronomy, polysemy, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. It also relates to concepts like connotation (semiotics) and collocation, which is the particular combination of words that can be or frequently are surrounding a single word. This can include idioms, metaphor, and simile, like, "white as a ghost." With the availability of enough material to analyze, semantic analysis can be used to catalog and trace the style of writing of specific authors.

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