Governing idea
Conversation does not merely transmit settled definitions. It exposes the negotiation of meaning. An agent should surface semantic gaps and clarification questions without silently becoming the authority that resolves them.
Work index
Research programMixedUnder evaluationCS-W-005
Semantic Friction
Conversation reveals where organizational meaning is still unstable.
Public, privacy-cleared evidence. The project page distinguishes an implemented artifact from broader claims still under research.
Meaning traceResolution · Open
01Notice
Correction or qualification signals an unstable boundary.
02Surface
Examples and authority signals make the gap inspectable.
03Clarify
A human authority resolves—or deliberately preserves—the ambiguity.
The problem
Organizations often formalize language into schemas and automated behavior before participants have reached a shared account of what their terms include, exclude, or permit.
What exists now
A governing question, candidate signal taxonomy, proposed Semantic Gaps and Boundary Examples outputs, explicit cultural and power risks, and a method direction for human-annotated evaluation.
Claim boundary
What this work does not establish.
- 01
No validated classifier or representative corpus currently exists.
- 02
Linguistic markers vary across culture, language, role, disability, and conversational style.
- 03
Detected friction cannot establish which participant has authority to define the term.
Learn the distinction
When two people use the same word but correct different examples, the disagreement may live in the term's boundary—not in the data or the people.
Evidence state
What the public record currently supports.
These signals are privacy-cleared and intentionally bounded. They show that work exists without inflating maturity or exposing protected source context.
- 01
Source conversations repeatedly show definitions becoming clearer through correction, examples, narrowing, and disagreement.
Public signal - 02
The proposed model distinguishes semantic instability from sentiment, interpersonal conflict, and ordinary wording variation.
Public signal - 03
A privacy-safe evaluation design has been identified but not yet executed.
Public signal
Next decision
Create the annotation guide, privacy-safe corpus plan, resolution states, and human-adjudication protocol.
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