Is semantics computational?

Is Semantics Computational?

Both formal semantics and cognitive semantics are the source of important insights about language. By developing precise statements of the rules of meaning in fragmentary, abstract languages, formalists have been able to offer perspicuous accounts of how we might come to know such rules and use them to communicate with others. Conversely, by charting the overall landscape of interpretations, co...

Computational Semantics

The most central fact about natural language is that it has meaning. Semantics is the study of meaning. In formal semantics, we conduct this study in a formal manner. In computational semantics, we’re additionally interested in using the results of our study when we implement programs that process natural language. In this course, we show how formal semantic representations can be computed and ...

Computational Semantics

Inference in Computational Semantics

The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1) was held at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam, on August 15, 1999. It was aimed at bringing together researchers from scientific disciplines to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural language semantics, ranging from theoretical to implementational issues. In pa...

Fuzzy Computational Semantics

Other than clear-cut symbolic representational formats employed sofar in natural language processing by machine, it is argued here, that fuzzy distributional representations correspond directly to the way word meanings are constituted and understood by (natural and artiicial) information processing systems. Based upon such systems' theoretical performance in general and the pragmatics of commun...