Palmer M.S. Semantic Processing for Finite Domains

Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 212 p.A primary problem in the area of natural language processing has been semantic analysis. This book looks at the semantics of natural languages in context. It presents an approach to the computational processing of English text that combines current theories of knowledge representation and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence with the latest linguistic views of lexical semantics. The book will interest postgraduates and researchers in computational linguistics as well as industrial research groups specializing in natural language processing.Problems in the semantic analysis of text
Previous computational approaches to semantic analysis
A domain formalization
Inference-driven mapping
Results of inference-driven semantic analysis
A: The pulley problems
B: The interpreter
C: The syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic rules
D: Verb, case, and relation definitions
E: A worked example