A Physical Metaphor to Study Semantic Drift

no code implementations • 3 Aug 2016 • Sándor Darányi, Peter Wittek, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Symeon Papadopoulos, Efstratios Kontopoulos

By using term distances as a measure of semantic relatedness vs. their PageRank values indicating social importance and applied as variable `term mass', gravitation as a metaphor to express changes in the semantic content of a vector field lends a new perspective for experimentation.

Monitoring Term Drift Based on Semantic Consistency in an Evolving Vector Field

1 code implementation • 5 Feb 2015 • Peter Wittek, Sándor Darányi, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Theodoros Moysiadis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Based on the Aristotelian concept of potentiality vs. actuality allowing for the study of energy and dynamics in language, we propose a field approach to lexical analysis.

Lexical Analysis Philosophy