Computing Meaning : Volume 1 /

Computational semantics is concerned with computing the meanings of linguistic objects such as sentences, text fragments, and dialogue contributions. As such it is the interdisciplinary child of semantics, the study of meaning and its linguistic encoding, and computational linguistics, the disciplin...

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Main Author: Bunt, Harry
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Muskens, Reinhard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1999.
Series:Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; 73.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Computational Semantics
  • On Semantic Underspecification
  • Dynamic and Underspecified Interpretation without Dynamic or Underspecified Logic
  • Labeled Representations, Underspecification and Disambiguation
  • Underspecified Semantics in HPSG
  • Minimum Description Length and Compositionality
  • How to Glue a Donkey to an f-Structure: Porting a `Dynamic' Meaning Representation Language into LFG's Linear Logic Glue-Language Semantics
  • Vague Utterances and Context Change
  • Using Situations to Reason about the Interpretation of Speech Events
  • Simulative Inference in a Computational Model of Belief
  • Indefinites as Epsilon Terms: A Labelled Deduction Account
  • Dynamic Skolemization
  • Semantically-based Ellipsis Resolution with Syntactic Presuppositions
  • Presupposition Projection as Proof Construction
  • Dynamic Discourse Referents for Tense and Modals
  • Linking Theory and Lexical Ambiguity: The Case of Italian Motion Verbs
  • A Disambiguation Approach for German Compounds with Deverbal Head.