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It is the purpose of this paper to look at the semantic analysis of a subset of natural English text, namely the simple noun phrase, and present the theoretical basis for and the implementation of a semantic analyzer called MEANINGEX. A "simple" noun phrase is defined as a noun modified by adjectives and/or prepositional phrases. Throughout the paper, examples will be given from medical record text because of my own orientation and because the desirability of semantic analysis of specific types of phrases provided the motivation for my study of meaning. I look at the basic operational question to be as follows: "How can statements with the same meaning, but which are said in different words be transformed to an identical form?" Thus the basic object of the process is to make similar things fall together.