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<p>reverse engineer the computational system which assigns denotations to expressions of <a href="page.php?w=natural_language">natural language</a>s.</p>

<p><big> In linguistic semantics </big></p>
<p>In <a href="page.php?w=formal_semantics_%28natural_language%29">natural language semantics</a>, denotations are conceived of as the outputs of the semantic component of the grammar. For example, the denotation of the word "blue" is the property of being blue and the denotation of the word "Barack Obama" is the person who goes by that name. Phrases also have</p><p>
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