Ebook: Computing Meaning: Volume 1

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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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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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Computational Semantics....Pages 1-32
On Semantic Underspecification....Pages 33-55
Dynamic and Underspecified Interpretation without Dynamic or Underspecified Logic....Pages 57-72
Labeled Representations, Underspecification and Disambiguation....Pages 73-94
Underspecified Semantics in HPSG....Pages 95-112
Minimum Description Length and Compositionality....Pages 113-128
How to Glue a Donkey to an F-Structure: Porting a ‘Dynamic’ Meaning Representation Language into LFG’s Linear Logic Glue-Language Semantics....Pages 129-148
Vague Utterances and Context Change....Pages 149-166
Using Situations to Reason about the Interpretation of Speech Events....Pages 167-184
Simulative Inference in a Computational Model of Belief....Pages 185-202
Indefinites as Epsilon Terms: A Labelled Deduction Account....Pages 203-218
Dynamic Skolemization....Pages 219-253
Semantically-Based Ellipsis Resolution with Syntactic Presuppositions....Pages 255-279
Presupposition Projection as Proof Construction....Pages 281-300
Dynamic Discourse Referents for Tense and Modals....Pages 301-319
Linking Theory and Lexical Ambiguity: The Case of Italian Motion Verbs....Pages 321-337
A Disambiguation Approach for German Compounds with Deverbal Head....Pages 339-356
Back Matter....Pages 357-363

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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.
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Computational Semantics....Pages 1-32
On Semantic Underspecification....Pages 33-55
Dynamic and Underspecified Interpretation without Dynamic or Underspecified Logic....Pages 57-72
Labeled Representations, Underspecification and Disambiguation....Pages 73-94
Underspecified Semantics in HPSG....Pages 95-112
Minimum Description Length and Compositionality....Pages 113-128
How to Glue a Donkey to an F-Structure: Porting a ‘Dynamic’ Meaning Representation Language into LFG’s Linear Logic Glue-Language Semantics....Pages 129-148
Vague Utterances and Context Change....Pages 149-166
Using Situations to Reason about the Interpretation of Speech Events....Pages 167-184
Simulative Inference in a Computational Model of Belief....Pages 185-202
Indefinites as Epsilon Terms: A Labelled Deduction Account....Pages 203-218
Dynamic Skolemization....Pages 219-253
Semantically-Based Ellipsis Resolution with Syntactic Presuppositions....Pages 255-279
Presupposition Projection as Proof Construction....Pages 281-300
Dynamic Discourse Referents for Tense and Modals....Pages 301-319
Linking Theory and Lexical Ambiguity: The Case of Italian Motion Verbs....Pages 321-337
A Disambiguation Approach for German Compounds with Deverbal Head....Pages 339-356
Back Matter....Pages 357-363
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