Returning to Text: Affect, Meaning Making, and Literacies

A Text->Meaning->Text Dictionary and Process

Lexicon, Ontology, and Text Meaning

A computationally relevant theory of lexical semantics must take into consideration both the form and the content of three different static knowledge sources -the lexicon, the ontological domain model and a text meaning representation language. Meanings of lexical units axe interpreted in terms of their mappings into the ontology and/or their contributions to the text meaning representation. We...

Meaning Representation and Text Planning

The data flow in natural language generation (NLG) starts with a 'world' state, represented by structures of an application program (e.g., an expert system) that has text generation needs and an impetus to produce a natural language text. The output of generation is a natural language text. The generation process involves the tasks of a) delimiting the content of the eventual text, b) plano nin...

Sentence Meaning according to a Given Text

The meaning of a text can be generated by the composition of the meanings of all its units. The sentence meaning is not enough in itself and cannot be taken separately from the text context, it is a function of the text where this sentence appears. We propose below an approach which gives an account for this semantic phenomena. It is based on the minimal units of meaning following Harris’s gram...

Meaning-Text Theory

Since the mid-1960s, the development of Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) can be followed in Russian, French, and English publications. The main authors of this theory are I. A. Melt~uk and A. K. 7.olkowskij, the first works with a more global insight into MTT being 7.olkowskij and Mel~uk (1965, 1967). Since that time, MTT has been developing and has brought considerable results. Nowadays, there are hu...