title: Natural language processing, lexicon and semantics.
abstract: While the design of a fully general procedure for semantico-pragmatic interpretation of natural language texts does not seem to be feasible with current scientific knowledge and technology, the more practical microworld based approaches lack generality and portability. A compromise between generality and practicality might lie in the use of an intermediate level of presentation ("pseudo-semantics"), which can be derived from syntactic representations and lexical information by means of a general procedure. Domain-dependent rules for semantico-pragmatic interpretation can then be applied to these representations, insulating syntactic processing from details of the application domain.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Linguistics-LATL, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wehrli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic