NLU consists of reading a text expressed in natural language; determining its meaning by attributing a meaning to terms, sentences, and paragraphs present in it, and making inferences about these elements in order to elicit their explicit or implicit properties. In particular, one of the most salient issues in modeling a textual representation is to capture semantic relationships between concepts. To solve this task, several methodologies have been proposed in the literature, some of which talk of access to external knowledge bases. Others, instead, construct semantic distributive spaces, analyzing the content of the text collection without making use of prior knowledge.
Under the NLU definition, there is a ...