[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> Even modern methods today (deep recurrent networks, etc.) can do pretty well with these kinds of tasks (a very large ontology for instance) if you have enough annotations of the nuance!

Where do you get that from? NLP, with neural networks or not, stays as safely away from meaning as is humanely possible while working in an area very closely connected to it.

Also, ontologies? Very few people are interested in that nowadays, though that includes the team that made Watson. The push is instead to do away with all that and rely on statistical approximation.