Semantics is about taking words & sentences and assigning meaning to them (without environmental-context) is the study of the meaning of phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, phrases, and sentences (syntax) Semantic - Types Lexical Semantics study of word meanings and the relations between word meanings Link to original Sentential Semantics study of phrase/clause/sentence meanings and the semantic relationships between them Link to original Semantic Relations & Extraction Semantic Relations Semantic Relation Extraction