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Semantics and Pragmatics

Sub-topics

compositional and formal semantics
implicature and the gricean program
lexical semantics linguistics
presupposition and information structure
reference and deixis
speech acts

Methods for this concept

Speech Act Theory
Commonsense Reasoning
Paraphrase Detection
Word Sense Disambiguation
Prototype Theory
Implicit Sentiment Analysis
Semantic Parsing
Textual Entailment

Related concepts

Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Philosophical Logic
Psycholinguistics
Morphology and Syntax
Sociolinguistics

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