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semantics-free en · ADJ

Etymology

From semantics + -free.

Meanings

1. Having no semantic content.
   • 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 559:
   • 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, 2009, Hans Christian Boas, Multilingual FrameNets in computational lexicography, page 292:
   • 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 131:

Forms

Synonyms

meaningless (having no semantic content) · s-free (having no semantic content)