Authenticity has a cohort of semantic fellow-travellers – such as "spontaneity", which is engaging enough in small doses, in dogs and children, but tiresome and selfish in any stretch from adults.
At times it has hinged on little more than semantic argument over whether the conflict was "war" (were the Aboriginal fighters guerrilla warriors?) and whether the locally raised militias, police and British military units qualified as an Australian defence force.
The books I had read so far had all stayed carefully within the semantic and grammatical comfort zone of their readers.
There is already a sense of saturation, of a collapse of robust sporting competition, even of basic semantic sense.
Whereas the web today provides links between documents which humans read and extract meaning from, the semantic web aims to provide computers with the means to extract useful information from data accessible on the internet, be it on web pages, in calendars or inside spreadsheets.
Then there is the Web Ontology Language (OWL), which provides a way to characterise objects".There's a thriving community working on the semantic web," says Sir Tim.
The semantic web could help to visualise such complex networks and organise them to allow a deeper understanding of the community's structure.
This is still very much at the research stage," he says.When pressed for examples of applications of the semantic web that common mortals might appreciate, Sir Tim enthuses about "friend-of-a-friend" networks, where individuals in online communities provide data in the form of links between themselves and their colleagues and friends.
Had she enmired herself in a semantic riddle what does love mean?—or was she confessing a lack of feeling?
In recent years Google has improved its search engine through semantic analysis and, more recently, personalisation.
One potential weakness might be the semantic blueprint, which has to remain unchanged between generations.
