How can we measure the truth in a given word-meaning? Are we limiting our understanding for meanings to the previous human experience recorded in dictionaries and literature? Why a word exists?
The Lion, in Arabic "Aa-Sa-Dun", this word has been used as a name for the well-known beast, and in many other occasions it is used to describe the courageous warrior. Look at the above image "the worrier and the beast", try to answer who is the true Lion, how are you going to find the answer?
There is an agreement that the true meaning of the Lion is the beast or the king of the jungle, and the courageous warrior is just a metaphor, this explanation can be found everywhere in dictionaries and literature.
But why this explanation? of course because it is recorded in human experience that has been accumulated through time, but here NAWA asks a bunch of critical questions and eventually provides a consistent approach to answer them:
Is this meaning true? Can we apply a standardised process to verify the meaning?
Are there other experiences in human history that are not recorded?
What is the ontological meaning of the word?
How to construct a word and its meaning? Is there a general law for how meanings are created?
Can we take the word and its meaning to the laboratory and subject it to empirical experimentation?
During the research on meanings which covered most of the spoken Arabic, the Author found that:
1- The available meanings for words are not 100% true or not 100% clear, a good guess for how meanings are performing is around 60%-70%.
2- Because a word might have two or more different meanings there is no referencing, so bias is not avoidable.
3-Whether analysed by a person or a machine, meaning can be misread or distorted, leading to wasted time and processing resources.
4- "LLMs apps has no soul", maybe because it lacks the basis for finding true meaning.
5- Translation is not accurate, again , because there is no methodology on how to extract/find the true meaning.