An applied radical semantics.
Michael Zarechnak · Mech. Transl. Comput. Linguistics · 1965
The difficulties encountered in the field of machine translation are many. The areas of contact between meaning and the syntactic vehicle expressing it are refractory and pose a problem for linguistic computational research. An applied radical semantics offers some operational solutions for ambiguous syntactic situations. Subject identification within a twoplace predicate structure is presented as an illustration of the resolving power of applied radical semantics. The fundamental notion is that of a BASIC semantic Element (BASE) defined as a single constitutive unit in the semantic structure of the radical morpheme, such that it could not be expressed by two separate simpler units. The radical BASES do not depend on the context. In our approach we consider word structure as having a multi-dimensional nature represented by BASES among which certain relations hold. The structural environment for each radix is inherently present in the manner in which the BASES are clustered into this given radix. If the investigation suggested in this paper is further developed and tested, the outcome may be of use in several areas connected with information retrieval.