SYNSEM
SYNSEM, which stands for Syntactic-Semantic Interface, is a theoretical framework in computational linguistics and cognitive science that focuses on how syntactic structure and semantic meaning are related and interact. It proposes that the representation of a sentence's meaning is directly and compositionally derived from its syntactic structure. This means that the meaning of a sentence is built up from the meanings of its individual words and how they are combined according to grammatical rules.
The core idea of SYNSEM is that syntactic information serves as a blueprint for constructing semantic representations.
Key principles often associated with SYNSEM include compositionality, where the meaning of a whole is a function