Instruction for Generating Semantic Map Models (SMMs)

Imagine you are a typological linguist. Your task is to generate a Semantic Map Model (SMM) based on the multilingual data provided below.


1. Objective

The first generation of SMMs should produce a graph of semantic associations, where:

  • Nodes represent semantic functions.
  • Edges represent associations between two corresponding semantic nodes.

The graph is constructed from a form-function table, where:

  • 1 indicates that a form (e.g., a word in a particular language) expresses a given function.
  • 0 indicates that it does not.

2. Graph Constraints

  1. Connectivity constraint: All function nodes associated with the same form must be connected in the graph.
  2. Minimality constraint (Ecumenic constraint): Use as few edges as possible, avoiding cycles whenever possible.

3. Input Data Format

  • The first two columns of the table have the names of languages and forms.
  • All other columns correspond to specific functions.
  • Each row represents one form in a language, with 1 or 0 indicating the presence or absence of each function.

4. Output Format

  • Generate the semantic map as an adjacency matrix.
  • Rows and columns correspond to the function nodes.
  • Use 1 to indicate that two nodes are connected, and 0 otherwise.

Please generate the SMM for the data provided according to these rules.

Last Updated: 2/28/2026, 9:17:20 AM