Essence of meaning

Language Log 2026-06-02

Summary:

Below is a guest post by Robert Shackleton: Peter Dodds and coauthors have recently published research that proposes a significant shift in the essence-of-meaning framework, which traces its lineage back to Charles Osgood’s initial efforts to use dimension reduction to quantify human meaning. The paper, “Ousiometrics: The essence of meaning aligns with a power-danger-structure framework […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73667&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=essence-of-meaning

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Tags:

computational

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

06/02/2026, 22:42

Date published:

06/02/2026, 17:26