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Semantics (and Pragmatics)

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In this chapter, we will see the various ways meaning can be analyzed and represented, be it on the level of elementary units such as morphemes and words (lexical semantics) or on the level of sentences/utterances (phrasal semantics) and discourse (discourse semantics).

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Haralambous, Y. (2024). Semantics (and Pragmatics). In: A Course in Natural Language Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27226-4_6

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