semantics-free

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English

Etymology

From semantics +‎ -free.

Adjective

semantics-free (comparative more semantics-free, superlative most semantics-free)

  1. (linguistics, computing) Having no semantic content.
    • 2004, Weixiong Rao with Hui Song and Fanyuan Ma, “Querying XML data over DHT System using XPeer”, in Hai Jin, editor, Grid and cooperative computing: GCC 2004‎, page 559:
      However, most of DHT systems focus strictly on handling semantics-free, large-granularity requests for objects by identifier (typically a name). They are limited to caching, pre-fetching, or pushing of content at the object level
    • 2007, Wolfgang Teubert, Text corpora and multilingual lexicography, page 131:
      They all try to demonstrate that language is more than just the assembling of context-free words using semantics-free rules
    • 2009, Hans Christian Boas, Multilingual FrameNets in computational lexicography, page 292:
      To date, such research has been impossible, since corpora have for the most part been annotated at a relatively shallow (semantics-free) level, forcing NLP researchers to choose between shallow approaches and hand-crafted approaches,

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