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{{confuseConfuse|Semantics (computer science)}}

{{Short description|Meaning represented by natural language}}

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{{Semantics}}'''Computational semantics''' is the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with [[semantics|meaning representations]] of [[natural language]] expressions.<ref>Blackburn, Patrick, and Johan Bos. "[https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/499187.pdf Computational semantics]." Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science (2003): 27-45.</ref> It consequently plays an important role in [[natural language processing|natural-language processing]] and [[computational linguistics]].

Some traditional topics of interest are: [[semantic analysis (linguistics)|construction of meaning representation]]s, semantic [[underspecification]], [[anaphora (linguistics)|anaphora]] resolution,<ref>Basile, Valerio, et al. "[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22meaning+representation%22+%22computational+semantics%22+%22underspecification%22+%22anaphora%22+%22scope+resolution%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47# Developing a large semantically annotated corpus]." LREC 2012, Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 2012.</ref> [[presupposition]] projection, and [[Quantifier (linguistics)|quantifier]] scope resolution. Methods employed usually draw from [[Formal semantics (linguistics)|formal semantics]] or [[statistical semantics]]. Computational semantics has points of contact with the areas of [[lexical semantics]] ([[word sense disambiguation]] and [[semantic role labeling]]), discourse semantics, [[knowledge representation]] and [[automated reasoning]] (in particular, [[automated theorem proving]]). Since 1999 there has been an [[Association for Computational Linguistics|ACL]] special interest group on computational semantics, SIGSEM.

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* [[Formal semantics (natural language)]]

* [[Minimal recursion semantics]]

* [[Natural -language understanding]]

* [[Semantic compression]]

* [[Semantic parsing]]

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==Further reading==

* Blackburn, P., and Bos, J. (2005), ''Representation and Inference for Natural Language : A First Course in Computational Semantics'', CSLI Publications. {{ISBN|1-57586-496-7}}.

* Bunt, H., and Muskens, R. (1999), ''Computing Meaning, Volume 1'', Kluwer Publishing, Dordrecht. {{ISBN|1-4020-0290-4}}.

* Bunt, H., Muskens, R., and Thijsse, E. (2001), ''Computing Meaning, Volume 2'', Kluwer Publishing, Dordrecht. {{ISBN|1-4020-0175-4}}.