Computing Meaning: Volume 3

By Reinhard Muskens

Book Overview

Computing the Semantic Information in an Utterance.- Justified Sloppiness in Anaphoric Reference.- Deriving Quasi-Logical Forms from F-Structures for the Penn Treebank.- Semantic Underspecification: Which Technique for What Purpose?.- Segmented Discourse Representation Theory: Dynamic Semantics with Discourse Structure.- Fragment Resolution in Dialogue.- Interpreting Concession Statements in Light of Information Structure.- Context and the Composition of Meaning.- Meaning, Intonation and Negation.- Customizing Meaning: Building Domain-specific Semantic Representations from a Generic Lexicon.- Flexible Composition in LTAG: Quantifier Scope and Inverse Linking.- Serious Computing with Tense.- Temporal and Event Information in Natural Language Text.- Finite-state Descriptions for Temporal Semantics.- Generating Bridging Definite Descriptions.- Graphs and Booleans: On the Generation of Referring Expressions.- Efficient Computation of Overlay for Multiple Inheritance Hierarchies in Discourse Modeling.- Linear Logic Based Transfer and Structural Misalignment.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402059574
• ISBN13: 9781402059575
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"