Meaning (semantics)

Syntatic guessing is not the final frontier of stochastic NLP

Create machine-tractable text meaning representations

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Text Meaning Representations

• Language-neutral representation of a language unit
• A series of connected frames representing knowledge
• Requires Ontologies/Taxonomies large knowledge bases
• Allows deep querying of text content

Lightweight Semantic Documents -- WIMs

• Limited, but important set of relations
• Lightweight processing using available knowledge
• Creates a traversable graph of the content
• Open Source!