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Computing Meaning

Volume 4

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Harry Bunt

    1. Tilburg Center for Cognition & Comm., Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  2. Johan Bos

    1. Alfa-Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  3. Stephen Pulman

    1. Department of Computer Science Wolfson Building, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  • Offers a state-of-the-art overview of computational semantics written by leading researchers in the field
  • Presents the latest developments in methods and tools for the automatic computation of the content of natural language expressions
  • Includes discussions of WordNet, VerbNet, semantically annotated corpora and new methodologies for their construction as well as new statistical methods such as the application of distributional semantics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 47)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Computing Meaning: Annotation, Representation, and Inference

    • Harry Bunt, Johan Bos, Stephen Pulman
    Pages 1-9

  3. Semantic Representation and Compositionality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Deterministic Statistical Mapping of Sentences to Underspecified Semantics

      • Hiyan Alshawi, Pi-Chuan Chang, Michael Ringgaard
      Pages 13-25

    3. A Formal Approach to Linking Logical Form and Vector-Space Lexical Semantics

      • Dan Garrette, Katrin Erk, Raymond Mooney
      Pages 27-48

    4. Annotations that Effectively Contribute to Semantic Interpretation

      • Harry Bunt
      Pages 49-69

    5. Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning

      • Edward Grefenstette, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke, Stephen Pulman
      Pages 71-86

  4. Inference and Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Recognizing Textual Entailment and Computational Semantics

      • Johan Bos
      Pages 89-105

    3. Abductive Reasoning with a Large Knowledge Base for Discourse Processing

      • Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Niloofar Montazeri, Theodore Alexandrov, Jerry R. Hobbs, Michael C. McCord, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta
      Pages 107-127

    4. Natural Logic and Natural Language Inference

      • Bill MacCartney, Christopher D. Manning
      Pages 129-147

    5. Designing Efficient Controlled Languages for Ontologies

      • Camilo Thorne, Raffaella Bernardi, Diego Calvanese
      Pages 149-173

  5. Semantic Resources and Annotation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. A Context-Change Semantics for Dialogue Acts

      • Harry Bunt
      Pages 177-201

    3. VerbNet Class Assignment as a WSD Task

      • Susan Windisch Brown, Dmitriy Dligach, Martha Palmer
      Pages 203-216

    4. Annotation of Compositional Operations with GLML

      • James Pustejovsky, Anna Rumshisky, Olga Batiukova, Jessica L. Moszkowicz
      Pages 217-234

    5. Incremental Recognition and Prediction of Dialogue Acts

      • Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt
      Pages 235-256

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 257-260
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About this book

This book is a collection of papers by leading researchers in computational semantics. It presents a state-of-the-art overview of recent and current research in computational semantics, including descriptions of new methods for constructing and improving resources for semantic computation, such as WordNet, VerbNet, and semantically annotated corpora. It also presents new statistical methods in semantic computation, such as the application of distributional semantics in the compositional calculation of sentence meanings. Computing the meaning of sentences, texts, and spoken or texted dialogue is the ultimate challenge in natural language processing, and the key to a wide range of exciting applications. The breadth and depth of coverage of this book makes it suitable as a reference and overview of the state of the field for researchers in Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Intelligence. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tilburg Center for Cognition & Comm., Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Harry Bunt

  • Alfa-Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Johan Bos

  • Department of Computer Science Wolfson Building, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Stephen Pulman

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