Before performing an action, we almost always have the intent to perform the action first. In many cases, we also talk about or write about our intents. Although the concept of intent has been investigated in philosophy and psychology, researchers in these fields are usually not concerned with the language used to state intent or how to infer intent from written language computationally, which is our objective in this chapter. Studying intent computationally is just beginning, and our understanding of the problem remains limited.