• Introduction

• Morphology (word forms) and Lexicon (dictionary). A morphological analyzer converts words to root forms and affixes.

• Grammars and Parsing (syntax). A grammar is a set of rules describing legal ways to combine words and phrases. A parser analyzes a sentence to determine its structure according to the Lexicon and Grammar. A generator converts a meaning structure to a statement in the language, using the Lexicon and Grammar.

• Semantics
  • Case theory

  • Semantic Markers, Selection Restrictions, Case Frames

• Representation of meaning: semantic networks, predicate calculus

• Anaphora, reference, discourse

• Applications; semantic grammar; augmented transition network

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