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Computational Semantics

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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.

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  • Noun Phrase
  • Lexical Ambiguity
  • Sentence Meaning
  • Punctuation Mark
  • Minimum Description Length Principle

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Bunt, H., Muskens, R. (1999). Computational Semantics. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4231-1_1

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