Everyday words, such as ‘red’, ‘sad’, ‘house’, ‘run’ and ‘sister’, may strike us as denoting concepts that exist independently of any language. In a traditional view, words such as these map onto ...

This post is the second in a multi-part series about the future of marketing and the role that semantic, context and intent will have on how we experience the internet. So the search of yesteryear is ...

Urdu, a rich Indo-Aryan language, relies extensively on derivational and inflectional processes for lexical expansion. Compounding, a pivotal word-formation process, has received a limited scholarly ...

Researchers hope that soon web technology will get to the point where, as you drive into town, an application spots a space in a nearby car park, calculates how long and what route to get there, and ...

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in the title or ...

It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...

Have you ever searched for something online, only to feel frustrated when the results didn’t quite match what you had in mind? Maybe you were looking for an image similar to one you had, or trying to ...

Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is an indexing and information retrieval method used to identify patterns in the relationships between terms and concepts. After all, Google is a massive index of ...