sememe
noun/ˈsɛmiːm/
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, I mean”) + -eme. Compare morpheme.
- derived from σημαίνω
Definitions
The smallest unit of meaning
The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.
- Since sememes are enhanced in the sememe network (as shown in Fig. 3), both a topic and an article analysis can rely on the sememe network instead of explicit term matching.
- HowNet organizes all the sememes into several trees, and each sememe is considered a node of a tree.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sememe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA