Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM): formalisation, computation, referential semantics

自然语义元语言（NSM）：形式化、计算、引用语义

• 批准号: DP0558995
• 负责人: Prof Cliff Goddard
• 金额: $ 20.36万
• 依托单位: The University of New England
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2005-02-01 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0558995
• 关键词: Natural; Semantic; Metalanguage; NSM; formalisation

Meaning is what links language with culture, communication and cognition but strangely enough, most linguists do not regard semantics (the systematic study of meaning) as a central part of their discipline. This project pursues basic research in the leading meaning-based theory of language: the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) theory, which has been originated and developed primarily in Australia. It aims to make this theory more precise, to work out how it can be used by computers, and to connect it with other, more mathematically inspired approaches to meaning.

意义是语言与文化、交流和认知的纽带，但奇怪的是，大多数语言学家并不把语义学（对意义的系统研究）作为他们学科的核心部分。该项目致力于基于意义的语言理论的基础研究：自然语义元语言（NSM）理论，该理论主要在澳大利亚起源和发展。它旨在使这一理论更加精确，研究出它如何被计算机使用，并将其与其他更具数学灵感的意义方法联系起来。