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Morgan Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics by Emily M. Bender, Alex Lascarides, Series Graeme Hirst
Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG)._x000D__x000D_This is because the aims of these fields are to build systems that understand what people mean when they speak or write, and that can produce linguistic strings that successfully express to people the intended content. In order for NLP to scale beyond partial, task-specific solutions, researchers in these fields must be informed by what is known about how humans use language to express and understand communicative intents. The purpose of this book is to present a selection of useful information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way that's accessible to and useful for NLP practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior training in linguistics._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Acknowledgments_x000D_
Introduction_x000D_
What is Meaning?_x000D_
Lexical Semantics: Overview_x000D_
Lexical Semantics: Senses_x000D_
Semantic Roles_x000D_
Collocations and Other Multiword Expressions_x000D_
Compositional Semantics_x000D_
Compositional Semantics beyond Predicate-Argument Structure_x000D_
Beyond Sentences_x000D_
Reference Resolution_x000D_
Presupposition_x000D_
Information Status and Information Structure_x000D_
Implicature and Dialogue_x000D_
Resources_x000D_
Bibliography_x000D_
Authors' Biographies_x000D_
General Index_x000D_
Index of Languages_x000D_