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Mental process of relating a perceived word to other words of similar meaning
In psycholinguistics, semantic processing is the stage of language processing that occurs after one hears a word and encodes its meaning: the mind relates the word to other words with similar meanings. Once a word is perceived, it is placed in a context mentally that allows for a deeper processing. Therefore, semantic processing produces memory traces that last longer than those produced by shallow processing, since shallow processing produces fragile memory traces that decay rapidly. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Semantic processingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Edge Learning for B5G Networks With Distributed Signal Processing: Semantic Communication, Edge Computing, and Wireless SensingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Handbook of latent semantic analysisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.Cited 5,963 times
- Go sideways: Lexical decision taskA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Levels of processing modelA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.
Semantic Underspecification in Language Processing
Semantic caching and query processing
Automatic semantic processing of unattended words
Semantic processing in “associative” false memory
Flavour processing in semantic dementia
Processing correlates of lexical semantic complexity
Semantic and phonological processing in illiteracy
🆕 Influential since 2022
Edge Learning for B5G Networks With Distributed Signal Processing: Semantic Communication, Edge Computing, and Wireless Sensing
A survey on semantic processing techniques
Word Embeddings and Semantic Spaces in Natural Language Processing
Semantic object processing is modulated by prior scene context
Socialness effects in lexical–semantic processing.
📚 Books worth reading
Handbook of latent semantic analysisThomas K. Landauer · 2007
Semantic structuresDavid L. Waltz · 1989
Ontology and the lexiconChu-Ren Huang · 2010
Computing MeaningHarry Bunt · 2001
Introduction to information retrievalChristopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan · 2008
Semantic TechnologyGuilin Qi, Kouji Kozaki · 2015
WordNetChristiane Fellbaum · 1998
EuroWordNetPiek Vossen · 1998
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