Natural Language Understanding: What Does it Mean? - Einzelansicht

Someone who can answer the question "what does it mean?" about a text 
would be said to exhibit understanding of natural language. Is that all 
that natural language understanding means? In this class, we will take a 
broad look at the phenomenon, with the question in mind of whether the 
perspective that the field of natural language processing (NLP) takes on 
natural language understanding does indeed capture it or not. We will 
read seminal papers not only from NLP, but also from cognitive 
psychology, linguistic pragmatics, and the philosophy of language. The 
discussions about the papers will be lead by a different student each 
week, and participation from all is expected.