Are we waves or are we particles? A new insight into deep semantics in natural language processing

Abstract

This paper brings conceptually new, empirically based scientific approach to a deeper understanding of human mind cognition, language acquisition, modularity of language and language origin itself. The research presented provides an interactive multilingual associative experiment as an attempt to map the Cognitive Semantic Space: (CSSES) and its basic frames of the Essential Self in the Czech language, collects and compares it to the CSSES of conceptual language view in Czech, Russian, English and potentially in other languages. We attempt to merge cognitive metaphor theory with psycholinguistics and psychoanalysis applying associative experiment methodology on the Essential Self metaphors. The research has two main goals: the first is to build an Essential Self multilingual WordNet, which serves as the basic lexical resource for Artificial Intelligence describes the core of the human nature. The second is to create a multilingual 3D semantic network.