Research on the Semantic Map of Chinese Verbs with the meaning of “Substitution (代替)”

Sensing and mapping its surroundings is an essential requirement for a mobile robot. Geometric maps endow robots with the capacity of basic tasks, e.g., navigation. To co-exist with human beings in indoor scenes, the need to attach semantic information to a geometric map, which is called a semantic map, has been realized in the last two decades. A semantic map can help robots to behave in human rules, plan and perform advanced tasks, and communicate with humans on the conceptual level. This survey reviews methods about semantic mapping in indoor scenes. To begin with, we answered the question, what is a semantic map for mobile robots, by its definitions. After that, we reviewed works about each of the three modules of semantic mapping, i.e., spatial mapping, acquisition of semantic information, and map representation, respectively. Finally, though great progress has been made, there is a long way to implement semantic maps in advanced tasks for robots, thus challenges and potential future directions are discussed before a conclusion at last.

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A Review and Perspective of Studies on Semantic Map in Chinese Language: 2003~2021

Modern Linguistics ◽

10.12677/ml.2021.95182 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 09 (05) ◽

pp. 1334-1344

Author(s):

珊肖

Keyword(s):

Chinese Language ◽

Semantic Map

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A Study on a Group of Grammatical Features across Western Yue Dialects: Perspectives from Contact-induced Grammaticalization and Semantic Map Model

Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics ◽

10.1163/2405478x-01002004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 197-213

Author(s):

Lin Huayong ◽

Wu Xueyu ◽

Liu Zhiling

Keyword(s):

Language Contact ◽

Guangdong Province ◽

Semantic Map ◽

Chinese Dialects ◽

Grammatical Change ◽

Linguistic Basis ◽

Chinese Linguistics

The theory of contact-induced grammaticalization has been proposed to examine language contact and grammatical change, and was introduced into Chinese linguistic circles over 10 years ago. It contributes to a series of developments and breakthroughs in the domain of contact between Chinese and other languages as well as contact among Chinese dialects. Recent approaches to Chinese linguistics combine the theory with Semantic Map Model. In this paper, we focus on the Chinese linguistic studies benefitting from the theory and discuss a group of regional grammatical features which have provided the linguistic basis for cultural regionalization in Guangdong Province.

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A tentative semantic map of depictives and other secondary participant-oriented predicates in the Lithuanian language

Lietuvių kalba ◽

10.15388/lk.2011.22795 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Veslava Čižik-Prokaševa

Keyword(s):

Life Stage ◽

Atmospheric Condition ◽

Semantic Map ◽

Semantic Link ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Secondary Predicates ◽

Emotional Condition

The article sets out to analyse the similarities and differences of free secondary predicates (predicative adjuncts) in the Lithuanian language and secondary predicates in other languages. The study has been carried out relying on the universal semantic map for participant-oriented modifiers drawn by N. P. Himmelmann and E. Schultze-Berndt (2005) and on the basis of the elements of its composition. The analysis has demonstrated that the majority of Lithuanian language modifiers which have usually been analysed as circumstantials, i.e. as event-oriented modifiers, are in fact also participant-oriented. Their semantic link with the participant is reflected not only by the secondary predicates of physical, mental or emotional condition, function, role, association, collective or life stage but also by those of manner, concomitance, distributivity, time and even location and atmospheric condition. As a result, a tentative semantic map of participant-oriented modifiers in the Lithuanian language has been composed and it is provided in the article. This map is different from the universal map of Himmelmann and Schultze-Berndt because of the specificity of the Lithuanian language (secondary predicates of time, collective, distributivity, order, frequency and emphatic pronoun in the map of the Lithuanian language have fallen into different places; the denotation of location of event has been eliminated) and because of different theoretical principles selected for this study (the denotations of comparison and benefactive / malefactive are eliminated, circumstantial secondary predicates are added). With respect to the possible denotations of free secondary predicates in different languages of the word as proposed by Himmelmann and Schultze-Berndt, the Lithuanian language only lacks those of comparison, benefactive / malefactive and location of event; however, it is possible to distinguish additional categories of causal, temporal, conditional and concessive circumstantials. On the basis of the investigation, the following tentative semantic map of participant-oriented modifiers in the Lithuanian language has been drawn.

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