Contextual Computing for Natural Language Processing
human-human communication works extremely well despite all of the challenges presented above, i.e. we can understand each other despite all of the ambiguities and underspecifications present in our utterances [...] recognition of the fact that computational approaches to any of the three aforementioned challenges can benefit from the inclusion of contextual information, real world knowledge and correspondingly reified [...] to present a formal approach for explicating contextual information and pragmatic knowledge, that can be applied, employed and evaluated in natural language understanding systems. Thesis online