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Computing meanings is something that we do when we read, when we write, when we listen and when we speak, and to a certain extent also when we think and when we dream. We seem to do it virtually all the time, and yet it isn’t even entirely clear what we mean by saying that we compute meanings; the very concept of meaning is not beyond discussion.
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Bunt, H. (2001). From Lexical Item to Discourse Meaning: Computational and Representational Tools. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R., Thijsse, E. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0572-2_1
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