Multilingual and interlingual semantic representations for natural language processing: a brief introduction

We introduce the Computational Linguistics special issue on Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing. We situate the special issue’s five articles in the context of our fast-changing field, explaining our motivation for this project. We offer a brief summary of the work in the issue, which includes developments on lexical and sentential semantic representations, from symbolic and neural perspectives.MRC is supported in part by a Google Faculty Research Award 2018, Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, the European Regional Development Fund and the Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, through the postdoctoral senior grant Ramon y Cajal, the contract TEC2015-69266-P (MINECO/FEDER,EU) and the contract PCIN-2017-079 (AEI/MINECO). N. A. S. is supported by National Science Foundation grant IIS-1562364. C. E. B. is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the funding code 01IW17001 (Deeplee).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version