Semantics

The study of meaning

Semantics is the study of meaning. Computational Semantics is the study of automating constructing and reasoning with meaning representations.

Semantics is the study of meaning. It investigates questions such as: What is meaning? How come words and sentences have meaning? What is the meaning of words and sentences? How can the meanings of words combine to form the meaning of sentences? Do two people mean the same thing when they utter the word ‘cat’? How do we communicate? Etc, etc. - Dr. Aurelie Herbelot

Links for further reading

• Making sense when nothing makes sense

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