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Computational Linguistics - How Important Is Semantics? Compared to What?
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... Computational Linguistics - How Important Is Semantics? Compared to What? Semantics has to do with meaning, the nature of which has been the subject of much philosophical debate: what is it exactly and how can it be represented? This essay is concerned with semantics from the perspective of Computational Linguistics, which is essentially concerned with building or attempting to build computational models of natural language. These Natural Language Processing or Understanding systems have a wide range of practical applications as well as providing insight into human understanding and perception. The prominance of semantics in the title can be taken as suggesting that it is indeed highly relevant to Computational Linguistics. However it is also implied, quite correctly, that semantics is not the only relevant area of interest. Natural Language systems usually have a number of different components and briefly outlining them here will help to put semantics in context. Phonetics is concerned













