Computing Meaning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Computational Semantics

   • Harry Bunt, Reinhard Muskens

   Pages 1-32

3. On Semantic Underspecification

   • Manfred Pinkal

   Pages 33-55

4. Dynamic and Underspecified Interpretation without Dynamic or Underspecified Logic

   • Allan Ramsay

   Pages 57-72

5. Labeled Representations, Underspecification and Disambiguation

   • Nicolas Asher, Tim Fernando

   Pages 73-94

6. Underspecified Semantics in HPSG

   • Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer

   Pages 95-112

7. Minimum Description Length and Compositionality

   • Wlodek Zadrozny

   Pages 113-128

8. How to Glue a Donkey to an F-Structure: Porting a ‘Dynamic’ Meaning Representation Language into LFG’s Linear Logic Glue-Language Semantics

   • Josef Van Genabith, Richard Crouch

   Pages 129-148

9. Vague Utterances and Context Change

   • Alice Kyburg, Michael Morreau

   Pages 149-166

10. Using Situations to Reason about the Interpretation of Speech Events

    • Robin Cooper

    Pages 167-184

11. Simulative Inference in a Computational Model of Belief

    • Aaron N. Kaplan, Lenhart K. Schubert

    Pages 185-202

12. Indefinites as Epsilon Terms: A Labelled Deduction Account

    • Wilfried Meyer Viol

    Pages 203-218

13. Dynamic Skolemization

    • Lenhart Schubert

    Pages 219-253

14. Semantically-Based Ellipsis Resolution with Syntactic Presuppositions

    • Jonathan Ginzburg

    Pages 255-279

15. Presupposition Projection as Proof Construction

    • Emiel Krahmer, Paul Piwek

    Pages 281-300

16. Dynamic Discourse Referents for Tense and Modals

    • Matthew Stone, Daniel Hardt

    Pages 301-319

17. Linking Theory and Lexical Ambiguity: The Case of Italian Motion Verbs

    • Luca Dini, Vittorio Di Tomaso

    Pages 321-337

18. A Disambiguation Approach for German Compounds with Deverbal Head

    • Sabine Reinhard

    Pages 339-356

19. Back Matter

    Pages 357-363

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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 discipline that is concerned with computations on linguistic objects.
From one parent computational semantics inherits concepts and techniques that have been developed under the banner of formal (or model-theoretic) semantics. This blend of logic and linguistics applies the methods of logic to the description of meaning. From the other parent the young discipline inherits methods and techniques for parsing sentences, for effective and efficient representation of syntactic structure and logical form, and for reasoning with semantic information. Computational semantics integrates and further develops these methods, concepts and techniques.
This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics. It is aimed at those linguists, computer scientists, and logicians who want to know more about the algorithmic realisation of meaning in natural language and about what is happening in this field of research. There is a general introduction by the editors.

• Parsing
• algorithms
• computational linguistics
• linguistics
• logic
• natural language
• semantic
• semantics

"... the editors did a good job in projecting a collection of works representing the state of the art in computational semantics. The book contains material that will be of value especially to experts in this field. However, most of the papers in the volume will also be relevant to researchers from other branches of computational linguistics who are interested in theoretical aspects of the computation of meaning in natural language."
(Computational Linguistics, 27:1 (1999)

• Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  Harry Bunt, Reinhard Muskens

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