Authors |
|
Abstract |
Formal semantics is the study of linguistic meaning using precise mathematical characterizations; this chapter introduces formal semantics to scholars and students of natural-language processing. We give simple logical representations of English sentences, and show how meanings are composed in a grammar. We then consider two more advanced issues that arise in processing texts, anaphora and temporality, using Discourse Representation Theory. Finally we discuss the relationship between deep logic-based methods for semantic analysis and shallower distributional methods that have been used in much recent NLP work, introducing some limitations of distributional methods, and hence motivating deeper or hybrid approaches.
|
Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199573691.013.29 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
No references found.
Citations of this work BETA
The Semantic Roots of Positive Polarity: Epistemic Modal Verbs and Adverbs in English, Greek and Italian.Anastasia Giannakidou & Alda Mari - 2018 - Linguistics and Philosophy 41 (6):623-664.
Similar books and articles
Formal Semantics: Origins, Issues, Early Impact.Barbara H. Partee - 2010 - The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 6 (1).
Semantics and Pragmatics.Christopher Gauker - 2012 - In Gillian Russell & Delia Graff Fara (eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Routledge.
Linguistic Communication and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction.Robyn Carston - 2008 - Synthese 165 (3):321-345.
Formal Semantics in the Age of Pragmatics.Juan Barba - 2007 - Linguistics and Philosophy 30 (6):637-668.
Davidson's Semantics and Computational Understanding of Language.Damjan Bojadžiev - 1989 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 36 (1):133-139.
Logic, Meaning, and Conversation: Semantical Underdeterminacy, Implicature, and Their Interface.Jay David Atlas - 2000 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Contrasting Meanings in Languages of the East and West.Dingfang Shu & Ken Turner (eds.) - 2009 - Peter Lang.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2011-03-22
Total views
169 ( #70,446 of 2,519,678 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
3 ( #205,238 of 2,519,678 )
2011-03-22
Total views
169 ( #70,446 of 2,519,678 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
3 ( #205,238 of 2,519,678 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads