Semantic Counterpart Research Articles

Corpus-Based Investigation of Proverbs: Challenges and New Directions

Abstract Proverbs are an important component of cultural literacy and thus they are often encountered in everyday life. Corpus-based studies of proverbs typically focus on proverb frequency. Here we address challenges in using general language corpora and corpus searches as a method for estimating proverb frequency. Using two general language corpora from Sketch Engine, HrWaC2.2 and NoTenTen17, to search for a semantic counterpart of the same proverb in Croatian and Norwegian, we explore various search options and their (dis)advantages, as well as the issue of proverb modifications that hinders attempts to obtain a reliable picture of proverb frequency in a corpus. Based on the corpus evidence, we provide insights into modification types of proverbs. Finally, we propose that an optimal search tool would consider a proverb’s features beyond frequency, such as its semantic class, syntactic complexity, and abstractness as contributors to its cognitive load, allowing a better selection of these expressions in clinical testing, education, research and entertainment.

Introducing semantic loadings in factor analysis: Bridging network psychometrics and cognitive networks for understanding depression, anxiety and stress

A psychometric scale reports experiences in terms of items/sentences rated by individuals. We investigate whether psychometric item ratings reflect semantic/syntactic associations between concepts in items. To this aim, we introduce semantic loadings as a semantic counterpart of psychometric factors, i.e. clusters of items obtained by correlations between item ratings. Semantic loadings quantify how clusters of semantically related concepts, as expressed in the texts of items, are allocated across psychometric factors as identified by ratings. As a case study, we focus on 39775 individual responses to the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) with 42 items on a 4-point Likert scale. To identify communities of semantically related concepts, we exploit the cognitive network framework of Textual Forma Mentis Networks (TFMNs), which reconstruct semantic/syntactic links encoded in the texts of items (e.g. "feel" and "sad" in the item "I usually feel sad"). To identify factors we compare eigenvector-based exploratory analysis with Graph Exploratory Analysis (EGA), which can both cluster items (and their texts) according to user ratings. We find that EGA is better at reconstructing the psychological organisation of DASS along the dimensions of anxiety, stress and depression. Following dual coding theory and the Deep Lexical Hypothesis, we posit that the act of reading items activates interconnected concepts and this influences user ratings and their expressed psychological constructs. Our results show a quantitative match: TFMN-based semantic loadings can identify specific aspects of emotional dysregulation, emotional exhaustion, physical distress and tension states of EGA-based psychometric factors, in non-random ways (up to p < 0.001). We discuss our results in view of relevant mental distress literature, psychometric scale designing and links with episodic and semantic memories.

Ossetic comitative markers in intragenetic and areal perspective

The article is dedicated to the description of comitative markers in Ossetic. First, we compare the distribution of basic comitative markers (which are used in prototypical comitative contexts like ‘Alan went to the mountains with Soslan’) in Iron and Digor Ossetic (the case marker -imæ and the postposition xæccæ, respectively). It is demonstrated that their usage contexts are similar overall, with the exception of plural pronoun constructions and attributive constructions, where the Digor postposition xæccæ has limited use. Second, we analyze the preposition æd, which exists in both language varieties. It is different from the basic comitative markers both in syntax and in semantics. It is typical in the context of “complete set” (e.g., ‘throw away the pot together with the flower’), thus being a socalled “holistic” comitative, like certain markers in some Uralic and Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages. The preposition æd also has a limited syntactic distribution, attaching mostly to nouns without dependents. The properties of æd also differ in Iron and Digor: in Digor, æd is more widespread in attributive constructions, and, unlike Iron, is used in coordinating constructions with double marking. Third,we discuss comitative markers in Iranian and in languages areally close to Ossetic in connection with the untypical semantics of æd. No reliable semantic counterparts to æd are found in Iranian. However, Georgian, which is found in the same linguistic area as Ossetic, has the marker -ian-ad, used in contexts similar to those where Ossetic æd is typical.

Multi-nomenclature, multi-resolution joint translation: an application to land-cover mapping

Land-use/land-cover (LULC) maps describe the Earth’s surface with discrete classes at a specific spatial resolution. The chosen classes and resolution highly depend on peculiar uses, making it mandatory to develop methods to adapt these characteristics for a large range of applications. Recently, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based method was introduced to take into account both spatial and geographical context to translate a LULC map into another one. However, this model only works for two maps: one source and one target. Inspired by natural language translation using multiple-language models, this article explores how to translate one LULC map into several targets with distinct nomenclatures and spatial resolutions. We first propose a new data set based on six open access LULC maps to train our CNN-based encoder-decoder framework. We then apply such a framework to convert each of these six maps into each of the others using our Multi-Landcover Translation network (MLCT-Net). Extensive experiments are conducted at a country scale (namely France). The results reveal that our MLCT-Net outperforms its semantic counterparts and gives on par results with mono-LULC models when evaluated on areas similar to those used for training. Furthermore, it outperforms the mono-LULC models when applied to totally new landscapes.

Interpolation and Uniform Interpolation in Quantifier-Free Fragments of Combined First-Order Theories

In this survey, we report our recent work concerning combination results for interpolation and uniform interpolation in the context of quantifier-free fragments of first-order theories. We stress model-theoretic and algebraic aspects connecting this topic with amalgamation, strong amalgamation, and model-completeness. We give sufficient (and, in relevant situations, also necessary) conditions for the transfer of the quantifier-free interpolation property to combined first-order theories; we also investigate the non-disjoint signature case under the assumption that the shared theory is universal Horn. For convex, strong-amalgamating, stably infinite theories over disjoint signatures, we also provide a modular transfer result for the existence of uniform interpolants. Model completions play a key role in the whole paper: They enter into transfer results in the non-disjoint signature case and also represent a semantic counterpart of uniform interpolants.

Tracking the World Down

The background of this paper is what I call “pragmatic inferentialism,” a view that I attribute to Robert Brandom. Here, I develop Brandom’s view and argue (i) that it is a kind of subject naturalism, in Price’s sense, and (ii) that the charge of idealism sometimes addressed against it is unwarranted. Regarding (i), I show that pragmatic inferentialism finds support from evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology. Regarding (ii), I present what I call “level 0 expressivism,” which I take to be the semantic counterpart of some aspects of evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology. Besides, I resort to Brandom’s defense of Hegel’s conceptual realism. The conclusion of the paper is a vindication of objective truth in the inferentialist framework.

Cedar as a Tree Image of Siberian Text

This study aims to create a “portrait” of the cedar as a central dendro-image of the Siberian text and the image of Altai in particular. The research materials are scholarly works on ethnography and folklore studies, Russian and Russian-language fiction of the nineteenth — twenty first centuries about Siberia. The author mostly refers to texts from the five-volume anthology The Image of Altai in Russian Literature of the 19th–20th Centuries (2012). The sources are considered in the context of the geo-poetic approach and ethno-dendrology. The analysis makes it possible to single out a combination of elements of the “tree” generic concept specific to the image of the cedar, which has not previously been the subject of systematic consideration. The real and cultural qualities of the cedar as a coniferous, evergreen, powerful, fruit-bearing, “male” tree determine its sacralisation in Siberian pagan and Russian Christian cultures. The Russian name for the Siberian cedar pine, “кедр”, which dates to the Middle Ages, establishes a correspondence between Siberia and Palestine, North and South, reflects the process of mythologisation of the conquered space in the categories of paradise / locus of the Passion. The main mythological and mythopoetic “cedar” motifs are associated with ideas about the World Tree, the Tree of Life, the family tree, the tree of poetry, etc. The symbolisation of the cedar as a sign and model of a person, a people, homeland, Altai, and Siberia remains unchanged. The cedar is accompanied by images of an animal (bear, sable), bird (eagle), and mountains. The semantic counterpart of the Siberian cedar in Russian culture is the oak, which is the main tree in the European part of Russia. Starting in the twentieth century, the practice of industrial logging leads to the emergence of new, environmental issues.

Distributional semantics insights on agentive suffix rivalry in French

The formation of French agent nouns (ANs) involves a large variety of morphological constructions, and particularly of suffixes. In this study, we focus on the semantic counterpart of agentive suffix diversity and investigate whether the morphological variety of ANs correlates with different agentive subtypes. We adopt a distributional semantics approach and combine manual, computational and statistical analyses applied to French ANs ending in -aire, -ant, -eur, -ien, -ier and -iste. Our methodology allows for a large-scale study of ANs and involves both top-down and bottom-up procedures. We first characterize agentive suffixes with respect to their morphosemantic and distributional properties, outlining their specificities and similarities. Then we automatically cluster ANs into distributionally relevant subsets and examine their properties. Based on quantitative analysis, our study provides a new perspective on agentive suffix rivalry in French that both confirms existing claims and sheds light on previously unseen phenomena.

Derivability and Metainferential Validity

The aim of this article is to study the notion of derivability and its semantic counterpart in the context of non-transitive and non-reflexive substructural logics. For this purpose we focus on the study cases of the logics ST and TS. In this respect, we show that this notion doesn’t coincide, in general, with a nowadays broadly used semantic approach towards metainferential validity: the notion of local validity. Following this, and building on some previous work by Humberstone, we prove that in these systems derivability can be characterized in terms of a notion we call absolute global validity. However, arriving at these results doesn’t lead us to disregard local validity. First, because we discuss the conditions under which local, and also global validity, can be expected to coincide with derivability. Secondly, because we show how taking into account certain families of valuations can be useful to describe derivability for different calculi used to present ST and TS.

Opozycja trybu przypuszczającego i trybu oznajmującego w łacinie: teoria hierarchicznego uporządkowania cech dystynktywnych

The indicative—subjunctive distinction of the Latin verbal mood system has been subject to various analyses. The paper presents an approach relying on the concept of contrastive feature hierarchy, developing the idea of a featural decomposition of Latin verbal moods. A threefold distinction in terms of features [±realis], [±oblique] and [±irrealis] is proposed, with an elucidation of morphological and semantic counterparts of such features and combinations thereof, utilizing basic tools of the possible worlds framework. Consequences of the proposed approach for an analysis of synchronic and diachronic variation in the Latin verbal mood system are also briefly discussed.

THE SEMANTIC AUTHENTICATION FROM ALBAIDHAWI STRUCTURAL SEMANTIC

The resources of language differ in terms of their morphology and types; therefore, there are contradictory views about theresources in relation to the morphological from as well as the nature of structures and meaning, which results from the structural diversity for each resource, resulting in a functional and semantic variation. This is not accepted as a justification for the issue of verbal commonality,semantic or linguistic synonym or as a type of multiple dialects. Therefore, each team of grammarians or interpreters, regardless their linguistic visualizations, demonstrate this differencein structure according to their particular views, and that was reflected on the pronunciation and semantic counterparts in the linguistic structure. In this research, whichis taken from the PhD, we attempt to connect those different forms based on the obvious evidence and the lexical and linguistic indicators, in that fifteen morphological structures are addressed as a part of the study’. The research introduced the sufficient examples for the semantic authentication from the Holy Quran, in which we illustrated the impact of morphological structures in determining the functional and linguistic meanings for the pronounced words as well as the impact of the interpretations provided by interpreters, such as Al-Baidhawi, in particular.

Validation of reputation measurement methods in the post-Soviet territory

Different approaches to definition of “reputation” concept and its presence in different disciplines’ discourse result in development of large number of reputation measurement approaches. The closest approaches to the sociological understanding of reputation are the RQ (CRQ) and RepTrak™ ones. These approaches were developed by western authors and have not been validated in the post-Soviet territory yet. The paper reviewed the verification of RepTrak™ methodology’s reliability and validity, and analyzed the terminological differences between the types of validity used by the authors of the methodology and their semantic counterparts, traditional for sociology. It is noted in the article that the developers of the methodology did not offer a unified model of corporate reputation; validation was carried out separately for two reputation constructs. The first construct confirms the connection between the emotional component of reputation and articulated willingness to act, the second — between the emotional and cognitive components of reputation. Using empirical data collected in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan, the authors of the article reproduced the procedures and approaches used by the methodology developers for confirmation of the methodology’s reliability and validity. To this end, authors of the article used confirmatory factor analysis and built structural models that fully correspond to the models used by the developers of the model. The authors of the article compare the parameters of the models and their criteria of fitting to the empirical data. As a result of a comparison done for each reputational construct a conclusion about the possibility of using the emotional reputation index in all three countries was done. It was concluded also that it is possible to use a complete original methodology for reputation research in Ukraine and Russia and it is required to modify it for Kazakhstan.

Language contact in the Balkan Sprachbund

Abstract This study investigates the meaning-form interface in the Balkan Sprachbund (BS), by researching five different languages: Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Greek. I consider two models that account for recurring properties of the relevant languages in the Sprachbund: convergence and diglossia. If convergence is the cause behind shared features typical of the BS, that predicts that Bulgarian and Romanian would be more transparent than Russian and Italian. Under the diglossic analysis, Koine Greek is assumed to be the source of shared features, which predicts that the BS languages, Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek, would be similar. To compare the two models, I investigate twenty-four opacity features, divided into five categories: Redundancy (one-to-many), Fusion (many-to-one), Discontinuity (one meaning split in two or more forms), Form-based Form (forms with no semantic counterpart: zero-to-one), and a group of typical BS features. The results are consistent with the diglossia model: Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek manifest similar features, which points in the direction of diglossia as the underlying cause of language similarity.

Transparency and language contact

Abstract When communicating speakers map meaning onto form. It would thus seem obvious for languages to show a one-to-one correspondence between meaning and form, but this is often not the case. This perfect mapping, i.e. transparency, is indeed continuously violated in natural languages, giving rise to zero-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one opaque correspondences between meaning and form. However, transparency is a mutating feature, which can be influenced by language contact. In this scenario languages tend to evolve and lose some of their opaque features, becoming more transparent. This study investigates transparency in a very specific contact situation, namely that of a creole, Haitian Creole, and its sub- and superstrate languages, Fongbe and French, within the Functional Discourse Grammar framework. We predict Haitian Creole to be more transparent than French and Fongbe and investigate twenty opacity features, divided into four categories, namely Redundancy (one-to-many), Fusion (many-to-one), Discontinuity (one meaning is split in two or more forms,) and Form-based Form (forms with no semantic counterpart: zero-to-one). The results indeed prove our prediction to be borne out: Haitian Creole only presents five opacity features out of twenty, while French presents nineteen and Fongbe nine. Furthermore, the opacity features of Haitian Creole are also present in the other two languages.

Distribution Tableaux, Distribution Models

The concept of distribution is a concept within traditional logic that has been fundamental for the syntactic development of Sommers and Englebretsen’s term functor logic, a logic that recovers the term syntax of traditional logic. The issue here, however, is that the semantic counterpart of distribution for this logic is still in the making. Consequently, given this disparity between syntax and semantics, in this contribution we adapt some ideas of term functor logic tableaux to develop models of distribution, thus providing some alternative formal semantics to help close this breach.

Satisfiability Calculus: An Abstract Formulation of Semantic Proof Systems

The theory of institutions, introduced by Goguen and Burstall in 1984, can be thought of as an abstract formulation of model theory. This theory has been shown to be particularly useful in computer science, as a mathematical foundation for formal approaches to software construction. Institution theory was extended by a number of researchers, José Meseguer among them, who, in 1989, presented General Logics, wherein the model theoretical view of institutions is complemented by providing (categorical) structures supporting the proof theory of any given logic. In other words, Meseguer introduced the notion of proof calculus as a formalisation of syntactical deduction, thus “implementing” the entailment relation of a given logic. In this paper we follow the approach initiated by Goguen and introduce the concept of Satisfiability Calculus. This concept can be regarded as the semantical counterpart of Meseguer’s notion of proof calculus, as it provides the formal foundations for those proof systems that resort to model construction techniques to prove or disprove a given formula, thus “implementing” the satisfiability relation of an institution. These kinds of semantic proof methods have gained a great amount of interest in computer science over the years, as they provide the basic means for many automated theorem proving techniques.

SUSZKO’S PROBLEM: MIXED CONSEQUENCE AND COMPOSITIONALITY

AbstractSuszko’s problem is the problem of finding the minimal number of truth values needed to semantically characterize a syntactic consequence relation. Suszko proved that every Tarskian consequence relation can be characterized using only two truth values. Malinowski showed that this number can equal three if some of Tarski’s structural constraints are relaxed. By so doing, Malinowski introduced a case of so-called mixed consequence, allowing the notion of a designated value to vary between the premises and the conclusions of an argument. In this article we give a more systematic perspective on Suszko’s problem and on mixed consequence. First, we prove general representation theorems relating structural properties of a consequence relation to their semantic interpretation, uncovering the semantic counterpart of substitution-invariance, and establishing that (intersective) mixed consequence is fundamentally the semantic counterpart of the structural property of monotonicity. We use those theorems to derive maximum-rank results proved recently in a different setting by French and Ripley, as well as by Blasio, Marcos, and Wansing, for logics with various structural properties (reflexivity, transitivity, none, or both). We strengthen these results into exact rank results for nonpermeable logics (roughly, those which distinguish the role of premises and conclusions). We discuss the underlying notion of rank, and the associated reduction proposed independently by Scott and Suszko. As emphasized by Suszko, that reduction fails to preserve compositionality in general, meaning that the resulting semantics is no longer truth-functional. We propose a modification of that notion of reduction, allowing us to prove that over compact logics with what we call regular connectives, rank results are maintained even if we request the preservation of truth-functionality and additional semantic properties.

Ordered group-valued probability, positive operators, and integral representations

Probability maps are additive and normalised maps taking values in the unit interval of a lattice ordered Abelian group. They appear in theory of affine representations and they are also a semantic counterpart of Hajek's probability logic. In this paper we obtain a correspondence between probability maps and positive operators between certain Riesz spaces, which extends the well-known representation theorem of real-valued MV-algebraic states by positive linear functionals. When the codomain algebra contains all continuous functions, the set of all probability maps is convex, and we prove that its extreme points coincide with homomorphisms. We also show that probability maps can be viewed as a collection of states indexed by maximal ideals of a codomain algebra and we characterise this collection in special cases.

중국인 학습자의 부사격 조사 ‘에’의 대치 오류 연구 - 학습자 말뭉치를 대상으로 -

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the usage patterns and errors of the adverbial particle. We will focus on the research used in place of ‘에’, according to how it appears for various semantic items of ‘에’. In this paper, we try to investigate the errors of ‘에’, which is the survey of the Chinese Korean learners, through large scale learner data. The specific research goals are as follows. First, we try to analyze the substitution error of the adverbial particle. Second, we try to examine the pattern of confrontation error according to the dictionary meaning of ‘에’. The results of the substitution error analysis are as follows. First, the errors of substitution of ‘에’ were in the order of ‘에서’ to ‘을/를’ to ‘의’ to ‘이/가’. Second, there was a difference in the aspect of the survey which was replaced by the meaning of ‘에’. And based on the example sentences of the errors, we could estimate the cause of some errors by estimating the influence of the mother tongue through the contrast analysis. First, there is a certain Chinese semantic counterpart, but a negative transition occurs. Second, there are a lot of Chinese correspondence, and there is interference in some cases. Third, there is no corresponding expression in Chinese. Next, it is difficult to see it as a mother tongue interference, but there are some complicated errors in ‘에’ itself. It is meaningful to examine the pattern of errors in large-scale empirical data and to diagnose errors in semantic items of Chinese learners through concrete examples.

Spatial meanings of na and semantically related prepositions in Macedonian

The paper presents а contrastive analysis of the spatial meanings of the preposition na and its semantic counterparts in Macedonian. Reviewed here are the contexts in which na assumes similarity of meaning to another preposition. In that respect, a view is presented that the synonymy among prepositions ensues from a shared topology they denote. This necessitates that the preposition in question should code the same position of participants as the preposition of comparison. However, the preposition na shows contextual uniqueness for the functional sense it carries. Whenever contrasted with another preposition in Macedonian, its functional aspect gains salience, whereby na introduces strong functional sense.