This book is a collection of papers by leading researchers in
computational semantics. It presents a state-of-the-art overview of
recent and current research in computational semantics, including
descriptions of new methods for constructing and improving resources for
semantic computation, such as WordNet, VerbNet, and semantically
annotated corpora. It also presents new statistical methods in semantic
computation, such as the application of distributional semantics in the
compositional calculation of sentence meanings. Computing the meaning of
sentences, texts, and spoken or texted dialogue is the ultimate
challenge in natural language processing, and the key to a wide range of
exciting applications. The breadth and depth of coverage of this book
makes it suitable as a reference and overview of the state of the field
for researchers in Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Computer
Science, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Intelligence.