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Computational semantics (Questionnaire 2)

junio 4th, 2009 · No hay Comentarios

Computational semantics studies how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language expressions. That’s why it is vital for automatic translation.

It is quite a new discipline which combines facts from formal semantics, computational linguistics, and automated reasoning.

Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks – and there’s a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously.

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