ABSTRACT
A classic NLP interpretation of semantic analysis was provided by Poesio (2000) in the first edition of the Handbook of Natural Language Processing:
The ultimate goal, for humans as well as natural language-processing (NLP) systems, is to understand the utterance-which, depending on the circumstances, maymean incorporating information provided by the utterance into one’s own knowledge base or, more in general performing some action in response to it. ‘Understanding’ an utterance is a complex process, that depends on the results of parsing, as well as on lexical information, context, and commonsense reasoning. . . (Poesio 2000: 93).
