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Semantics

Semantics is the branch of linguistics that investigates the meanings of linguistic expressions and the systematic principles by which linguistic forms generate meaning.

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Indexing by latent semantic analysis

Scott Deerwester, Susan Dumais, George W. Furnas et al. · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1990 · 12.8K citations

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A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.

Allan M. Collins, Elizabeth F. Loftus · Psychological Review · 1975 · 8.1K citations

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Structure‐Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy*

Dedre Gentner · Cognitive Science · 1983 · 5.1K citations

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Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar

Robert Freidin, Ray Jackendoff · Language · 1975 · 4.7K citations

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Cognitive representations of semantic categories.

Eleanor Rosch · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1975 · 4.5K citations

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  1. IH
    Ian Horrocks

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    47 publications · 9.2K citations

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  2. RW
    Raymond W. Gibbs

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    41 publications · 6.2K citations

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  3. MK
    Michael K. Tanenhaus

    University of Rochester, United States

    31 publications · 5K citations

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  4. MB
    Marco Baroni

    University of Trento, Italy

    33 publications · 5.5K citations

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  5. GV
    Gabriella Vigliocco

    University College London, United Kingdom

    34 publications · 5.6K citations

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    96 h-index

    459 publications

    59.5K citations

  2. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    81 h-index

    393 publications

    37K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    78 h-index

    308 publications

    36.4K citations

  4. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    74 h-index

    418 publications

    37.5K citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    70 h-index

    333 publications

    41.2K citations

  6. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    67 h-index

    180 publications

    23K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    66 h-index

    610 publications

    29.7K citations

  8. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    64 h-index

    372 publications

    24.6K citations

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  1. Language

    557 publications · 122.6K citations

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  2. Journal of Memory and Language

    163 publications · 23.1K citations

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  3. Linguistic Inquiry

    223 publications · 31.2K citations

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  4. Journal of Semantics

    272 publications · 23.8K citations

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  5. Lingua

    256 publications · 24.4K citations

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See also

Semantics

Core Theories

Compositionality

Meaning Relations

Formal Models

Semantic Interfaces