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Computing Meaning

Volume 1

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  • © 1999

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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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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 73)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

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"... 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)

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  • Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Harry Bunt, Reinhard Muskens

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