Semantic gap

So imagine you're talking to your stuffed animal friend and you say, "I want a banana." But your stuffed animal doesn't know what a banana is or why you want it. That's kind of like the semantic gap.

The semantic gap is when there is a difference between what a person means and what a computer or machine can understand. Sometimes people use words or phrases that a computer doesn't know, or they mean something different than what the computer can interpret.

For example, if you were talking to a computer about animals and you said, "I saw a big cat," the computer might not know whether you mean a lion, tiger, or something else entirely. Or if you say, "this cake is the bomb," the computer might not understand that you mean it's really good.

This gap makes it harder for computers to understand and process human language. That's why researchers are always working on ways to bridge the semantic gap, so that computers can better understand what people mean when they talk or write.