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

意义是把语言与文化、交际和认知联系起来的东西，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）作为他们学科的中心部分。本项目主要研究基于意义的语言理论：自然语义元语言理论（NSM），该理论主要起源于并发展于澳大利亚。它的目的是使这一理论更加精确，弄清楚它如何被计算机使用，并将其与其他更受数学启发的意义方法联系起来。

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.