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Computational semantics is the business of associating meaning representations with natural language expressions (words, phrases, sentences, and texts), and drawing inferences from these meaning representations [1]. It is an area that has recently matured to a state in which we have at our disposal robust, widecoverage systems that are capable of producing formal semantic representations for open-domain texts. One of such system is Boxer, developed by myself over the last four years [2,3].
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Bos, J. (2008). Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering. In: Gangemi, A., Euzenat, J. (eds) Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns. EKAW 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5268. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87696-0_2
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