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"ref": "1995, Louise Schleiner, Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman, Lehigh University Press, page 71",
"text": "Any given word of a natural language in its shared acceptations represents a seme, sememe, or set of sememes, but the profile that we can compile as representing the shared elements in a list of synonymous and parasynonymous words is an artificial construct, an instance of meta-language, thus called a constructed sememe.",
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"(linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme."
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"text": "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.",
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"sense": "smallest unit of linguistical meaning",
"word": "義位"
},
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