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semantic field

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noun

Linguistics.

  1. an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.

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Various approaches to refining retrieval methods toward this end include building on a computer version of a dictionary and letting the computer look up words in it to obtain more information about the semantic structure or semantic field of a word, its grammatical structure, and syntactic structure.

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