With the recent resurgence of interest in semantic annotation of corpora for improved semantic parsing, we observe a tendency which we view as ill-advised, to conflate sentence meaning and speaker meaning into a single mapping, whether done by annotators or by a parser. We argue instead for the more traditional hypothesis that sentence meaning, but not speaker meaning, is compositional, and acc...

Meaning for the Masses: Theory and Applications for Semantic Web and Semantic Email Systems

Semantic parsing is the construction of a complete, formal, symbolic meaning representation of a sentence. While it is crucial to natural language understanding, the problem of semantic parsing has received relatively little attention from the machine learning community. Recent work on natural language understanding has mainly focused on shallow semantic analysis, such as word-sense disambiguat...

This paper describes NTT DATA’s recognizing textual entailment(RTE) systems for NTCIR10 RITE2. We participate in four Japanese tasks, BC Subtask, Unit Test, Exam BC and Exam Search[5]. Our approach uses a ratio with the same semantic relations between words. It is necessary to recognize two semantic viewpoints, which are the semantic relation and the meaning between words in a sentence, in orde...

In this paper, a dynamic semantic approach to subsymbolic perceptual aspects of meaning is presented. We show how a simple classifier of spatial information based on the Perceptron can be cast in TTR (Type Theory with Records). Furthermore, we show how subsymbolic aspects of meaning can be updated as a result of observing language use in interaction, thereby enabling fine-grained semantic plast...

The schizophrenia syndrome is clinically characterized by abnormal constructions of meaning during comprehension (delusions), perception (hallucinations), action (disorganized and non-goal-directed behavior) and language production (thought disorder). This article provides an overview of recent studies from our laboratory that have used event-related potentials and functional magnetic resonance...