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A significant amount of information in today's world is stored in structured and semi-structured knowledge bases. Efficient and simple methods to query them are essential and must not be restricted to only those who have expertise in formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Aishwarya Kamath , Rajarshi Das

Semantic communication is an emerging paradigm that focuses on understanding and delivering semantics, or meaning of messages. Most existing semantic communication solutions define semantic meaning as the meaning of object labels recognized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jingming Liang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Mehdi Bennis

The recently emerged molecular communication (MC) paradigm intends to leverage communication engineering tools for the design of synthetic chemical communication systems. These systems are envisioned to operate at nanoscale and in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Lukas Brand , Yan Wang , Maurizio Magarini , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

This article serves as a brief introduction to the Shannon information theory. Concepts of information, Shannon entropy and channel capacity are mainly covered. All these concepts are developed in a totally combinatorial flavor. Some issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Ricky X. F. Chen

This article aims to provide a unified and technical approach to semantic information, communication, and their interplay through the lens of probabilistic logic. To this end, on top of the existing technical communication (TC) layer, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jinho Choi , Seng W. Loke , Jihong Park

Visual semantic correspondence is an important topic in computer vision and could help machine understand objects in our daily life. However, most previous methods directly train on correspondences in 2D images, which is end-to-end but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yang You , Chengkun Li , Yujing Lou , Zhoujun Cheng , Lizhuang Ma , Cewu Lu , Weiming Wang

Semantic communication (SC) enables bandwidth-efficient coordination in multi-agent systems by transmitting meaning rather than raw bits. However, when agents employ heterogeneous sensing modalities and AI architectures, perfect bit-level…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Mingzhe Chen

As early as 1949, Weaver defined communication in a very broad sense to include all procedures by which one mind or technical system can influence another, thus establishing the idea of semantic communication. With the recent success of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Edgar Beck , Hsuan-Yu Lin , Patrick Rückert , Yongping Bao , Bettina von Helversen , Sebastian Fehrler , Kirsten Tracht , Armin Dekorsy

Semantic communication is an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

As communication systems transition from symbol transmission to conveying meaningful information, sixth-generation (6G) networks emphasize semantic communication. This approach prioritizes high-level semantic information, improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Zhe Xiang , Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Yuandi Li , Zhiguo Wan

Foundation models (FMs), including large language models, have become increasingly popular due to their wide-ranging applicability and ability to understand human-like semantics. While previous research has explored the use of FMs in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xinping Yi , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Semantic communications will play a critical role in enabling goal-oriented services over next-generation wireless systems. However, most prior art in this domain is restricted to specific applications (e.g., text or image), and it does not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah

Semantic processing is a fundamental research domain in computational linguistics. In the era of powerful pre-trained language models and large language models, the advancement of research in this domain appears to be decelerating. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Rui Mao , Kai He , Xulang Zhang , Guanyi Chen , Jinjie Ni , Zonglin Yang , Erik Cambria

With the advent of Fifth Generation (5G) and Sixth Generation (6G) communication technologies, as well as the Internet of Things (IoT), semantic communication is gaining attention among researchers as current communication technologies are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Alakesh Kalita

Semantic communication (SemCom) has the potential to significantly reduce communication delay in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications within vehicular networks (VNs). However, the deployment of vehicular SemCom networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yanghe Pan , Yuntao Wang , Shaolong Guo , Chengyu Yin , Ruidong Li , Zhou Su , Yuan Wu

Cybersecurity incidents such as data breaches have become increasingly common, affecting millions of users and organizations worldwide. The complexity of cybersecurity threats challenges the effectiveness of existing security communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Carolina Carreira , Alexandra Mendes , João F. Ferreira , Nicolas Christin

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising technology to break the Shannon limit by extracting the meaning of source data and sending relevant semantic information only. However, some mobile devices may have limited computation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Zeyang Hu , Chenyu Wu , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

This article studies effective communication, one of the three forms identified by Weaver and Shannon, as an enabler for the upcoming 6G use cases. The envisioned tactile, holographic, and multi-sensory communications require bandwidths in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ece Gelal Soyak , Ozgur Ercetin

Achieving more powerful semantic representations and semantic understanding is one of the key problems in improving the performance of semantic communication systems. This work focuses on enhancing the semantic understanding of the text…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Mengli Tao , Jiancun Fan , Jie Luo , Huiqiang Xie

In recent years, the amount of information on the Internet has increased exponentially developing great interest in selective information dissemination systems. The publish/subscribe paradigm is particularly suited for designing systems for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ioana Burcea , Milenko Petrovic , Hans-Arno Jacobsen