This book introduces fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for
fragments of natural language and performing inference with the result. The prinary tools …

The aim of computational semantics is to capture the meaning of natural language
expressions in representations suitable for performing inferences, in the service of …

In this article we discuss what constitutes a good choice of semantic representation,
compare different approaches of constructing semantic representations for fragments of …

In this paper, we claim that the disambiguation ofreferring expressions in discourse can be
formulated in terms automatedreasoners can address. Specifically, we show that …

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AthosMail is a multilingual spoken dialogue system for reading of e-mail messages. The key
features of the application are adaptivity and the integration of different approaches for …

In spoken dialogue applications dialogue management has conventionally been realized
with a single monolithic dialogue manager implementing a comprehensive dialogue control …

Work on speech acts has generally involved the introduction of sets of different actions such
as informing, reminding, bluffing and lying. These actions have different preconditions and …

People learning a new language have problems with various aspects of the language they
want to learn–with its grammar, with its pronunciation, with its morphology... CALL tools have …

We consider two issues relating to WH-questions:(i) when you ask a WH-question you
already have a description of the entity you are interested in, namely the description …