semantic

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Despite frontier AI labs and tech competitors hiring forward-deployed engineers or discussing AI-powered “semantic layers,” Foundry is much more complex than a simple semantic layer over a data lake, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

By combining task based experiments with fMRI data, the team found no measurable difference in brain activity between successful episodic and semantic memory retrieval.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

A semantic memory can be recalled as though it were episodic and vice versa, in degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Dehn and others have characterized that reading of the code as semantic and divorced from its legal context.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker