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Computing Meaning

Volume 2

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Harry Bunt

    1. Tilburg University, The Netherlands

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  2. Reinhard Muskens

    1. Tilburg University, The Netherlands

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  3. Elias Thijsse

    1. Tilburg University, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 77)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. From Lexical Item to Discourse Meaning: Computational and Representational Tools

    • Harry Bunt
    Pages 1-10

  3. Inference and Computational Semantics

    • Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Michael Kohlhase, Hans De Nivelle
    Pages 11-28

  4. Building a Semantic Lexicon: Structuring and Generating Concepts

    • Federica Busa, Nicoletta Calzolari, Alessandro Lenci, James Pustejovsky
    Pages 29-51

  5. In Search Of The Semantic Value(S) Of An Occurrence: An Example And A Framework

    • Françoise Gayral, Daniel Kayser, Nathalie Pernelle
    Pages 53-69

  6. Agent-Dependent Metonymy in a Context-Change Model of Communication

    • Harry Bunt, Leen Kievit
    Pages 71-95

  7. Weak Lexical Semantics and Multiple Views

    • Allan Ramsay
    Pages 97-112

  8. Underspecified Lexical Conceptual Structures For Sense Variations

    • Patrick Saint-Dizier
    Pages 113-128

  9. The Availability of Partial Scopings in an Underspecified Semantic Representation

    • Alistair Willis, Suresh Manandhar
    Pages 129-145

  10. Compositional Semantics With Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (LTAG): How Much Underspecification is Necessary?

    • Aravind K. Joshi, K. Vijay-Shanker
    Pages 147-163

  11. Glue, Underspecification and Translation

    • Dick Crouch, Anette Frank, Josef Van Genabith
    Pages 165-184

  12. Two Functional Approaches For Interpreting D-Tree Grammar Derivations

    • Mark Hepple
    Pages 185-204

  13. Tree Descriptions, Constraints and Incrementality

    • Denys Duchier, Claire Gardent
    Pages 205-227

  14. Multiple Discourse Connectives in a Lexicalized Grammar For Discourse

    • Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Aravind Joshi
    Pages 229-245

  15. Fragmenting Meaning: Clarification Ellipsis and Nominal Anaphora

    • Jonathan Ginzburg
    Pages 247-270

  16. Event Coreference Between Two Sentences

    • Laurence Danlos
    Pages 271-288

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 289-306
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Keywords

About this book

This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics. Computational semantics is concerned with the computation of the meanings of linguistic objects such as text fragments, spoken dialogue utterances, and e-mail messages. The meaning of such an object is determined partly by linguistic information and partly by information from the context in which the object occurs. The information from these sources is combined by processes that infer which interpretation of the object applies in the given context. This applies not only to notoriously difficult aspects of interpreting linguistic objects, such as indexicals, anaphora, and metonymy, but also to establishing the precise reference of common nouns and the scopes of noun phrases. The central issue in computational semantics is how processes of finding and combining the relevant linguistic and contextual information into contextually appropriate meanings can be organised.
Traditional approaches of applying context information to disambiguated natural language expressions do not work well, due to the massive ambiguity in natural language. Recent work in computational semantics suggests, alternatively, to represent linguistic semantic information in formal structures with underspecification, and to apply context information in inference processes that result in further specification of these representations. Underspecified representation and inference are therefore the key topics in this book.
The book is aimed at those linguists, computer scientists, and logicians who take an interest in the computation of meaning, and who want to know what is happening in this exciting field of research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Harry Bunt, Reinhard Muskens, Elias Thijsse

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computing Meaning

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2

  • Editors: Harry Bunt, Reinhard Muskens, Elias Thijsse

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0572-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0175-8Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0451-3Published: 31 December 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0572-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 306

  • Topics: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Logic, Artificial Intelligence

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