Title :
Towards a theory of semantic communication
Author :
Bao, Jie ; Basu, Prithwish ; Dean, Mike ; Partridge, Craig ; Swami, Ananthram ; Leland, Will ; Hendler, James A.
Author_Institution :
Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper studies methods of quantitatively measuring semantic information in communication. We review existing work on quantifying semantic information, then investigate a model-theoretical approach for semantic data compression and reliable semantic communication. We relate our approach to the statistical measurement of information by Shannon, and show that Shannon´s source and channel coding theorems have semantic counterparts.
Keywords :
channel coding; data compression; Shannon theory; channel coding; model-theoretical approach; reliable semantic communication; semantic data compression; semantic information; statistical information measurement; Channel coding; Entropy; Probability; Receivers; Semantics; Weaving;
Conference_Titel :
Network Science Workshop (NSW), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
West Point, NY
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1049-0
DOI :
10.1109/NSW.2011.6004632
