Compurional Semantics is a relatively new discipline that combines insights from formal semantics, computational linguistic, and automated reasoning. The aim of computational semantics is to find techniques for automatically constructing semantic representations for expressions of human language, representations that can be used to perform inference.
Construction of meaning representations, semantic underspecification, anaphora resolution, presupposition projection, and quantifier scope resolution are some of the traditional topics. Computational Semantics has points in common with lexical semantics, discourse semantics, formal semantics, knowledge representation and automated reasoning too.
SIGSEM is ” the Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics”. The main activities of this group are:
- Supporting the organization of workshops and conferences dealing with relevant aspects of computational semantics, in particular the biennial International Workshops on Computational Semantics (IWCS) and the Workshops on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS).
- Promoting the interest in computational semantics by supporting the publication of work in this field and by making material available to support university education in computational semantics.
- To facilitate the communication between researchers in computational semantics as well as the communication with educators in the field and with those interested in potential applications of research results.
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- Computational semantics. In The University of Edimburgh School of Informatics. Retrieved June 18, 2009 12:30, from, http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jbos/pubs/theoria.pdf
- About SIGSEM. From ACL SIGSEM. Retrieved June 18, 2009 12:42. From http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM:About
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