Semantics in advertising: More than words can say It is said that a picture speaks a thousand words. And in advertising, it also extends to words, colours, backgrounds, sounds… in fact, the whole ...

It is now possible to identify the meaning of words with multiple meanings, without using their semantic context. Two physicists have now devised a method to automatically elucidate the meaning of ...

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to a group of entrepreneurs that I am not a fan of Jim Collins. There are many reasons, but one of them is that I dislike when he presents his work as though it is science ...

Navigating the healthcare system can be quite the journey, and like any journey, it is important to know the language of where you are going. A medical chart being examined. Credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya ...

Grammar Nazis are nice people sometimes, These folks will point out all your basic grammatical errors, spelling errors and misuse of words. Poetic license goes wooshing by when grammar nazis are in ...

I guess when I look back, it was all a question of semantics. Words were vital to me, a part of my essence — but not a part of yours. When I was younger, I would sit in my room for hours devouring my ...

The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary – not the one on your phone, but the one in your head. Just like ...

Words are being stripped of meaning. But the brawl over words like ’alt-right’ and ’ilk’ can make it hard to focus on the fights that really matter Screenwriter and actress Lena Dunham speaks to a ...

Two Brazilian physicists have now devised a method to automatically elucidate the meaning of words with several senses, based solely on their patterns of connectivity with nearby words in a given ...