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” ...

There are different ways to be a good reader. There has been much discussion over the years about some readers having more of a sound-based style and others having more of a meaning-based style. But ...

Half of a word's meaning is simply a three dimensional summary of the rewards associated with it, according to an analysis of millions of blog entries undertaken by researchers. We make choices about ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Anyone who has conducted document review knows the frustration of keyword search. You craft what seems like a comprehensive list of terms, run ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and ...

This talk by Elisabetta Ježek presents linguistic evidence why we need a context-sensitive model of lexical semantics to account for how lexical information, cognitive knowledge, pragmatic inference ...

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 ...