Despite the fact that Shannon and Weaver's Mathematical Theory of Communication was published over 70 years ago, all communication systems continue to operate at the first of three levels defined in this theory: the technical level. In this letter, we argue that a transition to the semantic level embodies a natural, important step in the evolution of communication technologies. Furthermore, we propose a novel approach to engineering semantic communication using conceptual spaces and functional compression. We introduce a model of semantic communication utilizing this approach, and simulate communication of image semantics demonstrating a 99.79% reduction in rate.
@article{arxiv.2210.01629,
title = {Semantic Communication with Conceptual Spaces},
author = {Dylan Wheeler and Erin E. Tripp and Balasubramaniam Natarajan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.01629},
year = {2023}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures. This article has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters. This is the author's version which has not been fully edited and content may change prior to final publication