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Representation of sentence meaning (A JNLE Special Issue)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2019

Ondřej Bojar*
Affiliation:
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, ÚFAL Malostranské nám 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic
Raffaella Bernardi
Affiliation:
DISI and CIMeC, University of Trento, Via Calepina, 14, 38122 Trento TN, Italy
Bonnie Webber
Affiliation:
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
*
*Corresponding author. Email: bojar@ufal.mff.cuni.cz

Abstract

This paper serves as a short overview of the JNLE special issue on representation of the meaning of the sentence, bringing together traditional symbolic and modern continuous approaches. We indicate notable aspects of sentence meaning and their compatibility with the two streams of research and then summarize the papers selected for this special issue.

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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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