Computational Pragmatics: A Survey in China and the World

The definition and scope of computational linguistics are reconstructed to distinguish it with other interdisciplinary disciplines like mathematical pragmatics, formal pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, etc. Meanwhile, the position of computational pragmatics and its relationship with other disciplines are displayed in this paper. Then, we reviewed the research status of computational pragmatics in China and the world, finding out the current study of computational pragmatics is still in its infancy, awaiting further research in four aspects: discipline construction, philosophy and methodology, fundamental theory, and application. Literatures indicate that computational pragmatics plays a vital role in both theory for a lot of disciplines and applications in our life.

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