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5 - What Does Semantics Do for Annotation?

from Part I - Fundamentals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2023

Kiyong Lee
Kiyong Lee
Affiliation:
Korea University, Seoul
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The task of semantics for annotation is two-fold. First, semantics validates the construction of a syntax for the generation of well-formed annotation structures. Second, semantics provides a formalism for interpreting those annotation structures that are generated by the syntax. In this chapter, my main concern is to present a general view of what kind of semantics is needed to interpret annotation structures and to lay a general ground for constructing an interpretation scheme for temporal and spatial annotation. This semantics follows the ordinary steps of doing model-theoretic formal semantics such as Montague semantics. It goes through an intermediate step of representing semantic content or denotations in logical forms and then interprets them with respect to a model with truth definitions.

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Annotation-Based Semantics for Space and Time in Language , pp. 99 - 141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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