Meanings
comparative more semantics-free · superlative most semantics-free
- computingHaving no semantic content.
They all try to demonstrate that language is more than just the assembling of context-free words using semantics-free rules
2007, Wolfgang Teubert, Text corpora and multilingual lexicography, page 1312 more examples
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
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 559To 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,
2009, Hans Christian Boas, Multilingual FrameNets in computational lexicography, page 292Synonyms: meaningless, s-free
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving no semantic content.
Origin
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