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From: mock@iris.ucdavis.edu (Kenrick J. Mock)
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Subject: Re: NLP reference wanted
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Date: 3 Dec 90 20:42:41 GMT
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In article <25674@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> kc@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>I am currently interesting in natural language processing. 
>Every one is talking about using semantics in NLP.
>But why is semantic information so important to NLP and why is 
>syntactic information not enough? I have not be
>able to find a comprehesive article or book about this. 
>Can anyone give me some article or book references about this?

Semantics are necessary to really understand what is going on.
Consider the following sentences:

"John gave Mary a book."
"John gave Mary a kiss."
"John gave Mary a beating."

All of these sentences are syntactically the same, but obviously mean
different things.  

One reference is "Scripts, Plans, Goals & Understanding" by Roger
Schank and Robert Abelson.


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