'semantic weight' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is often used to refer to the importance a certain word or phrase has in conveying a certain meaning. For example, the phrase "I'm in love" carries more semantic weight than the phrase "I'm fond of you", as it implies a stronger emotion.
The main verbs were coded based on semantic weight, with the verbs come, go, take and get coded as semantically light and all others coded as semantically heavy (Berndt et al., 1997; Hostetter, Alibali, & Kita, 2007).
Might "courier" bear the metaphoric and semantic weight a little more easily?
Since they exist independently and are located next to each other in the text, yet are not connected by any overt signals, these sentences are paratactic (equal in semantic weight).
> Finally, the gesture and the language were considered together, to determine whether one modality carried more semantic weight.
The mismatched gesture and language data were further considered to look at the relative semantic weight carried by the gesture and the language in these cases.
A second rater, also a qualified English speaking SLT with post-qualification experience with adults with aphasia coded 10% of the data for language measures (word count, PAS, SMTs, and verb semantic weight) and gestures (frequency and form).
Then the paths are ranked based on the various statistical and semantic weights [11].
Lubovac et al. [ 58] presented an algorithm called SWEMODE (Semantic WEights for MODule Elucidation) to detect functional modules in PPI networks.
Next, we perform what we call semantic items weighting: the semantic items that were extracted from the documents visited by a given user are added to that user profile.
Similarily, text retrieval that uses dictionary-based semantic tree to weight the words between query and document is used to find semantic similarities [15].
For this task, there is proposed a light-weight semantic formalization in the form of physical and logical taxonomy for classifying the collected raw log data.
