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doi:10.22028/D291-24858
Title: | A feature-based syntax/semantics interface |
Author(s): | Nerbonne, John |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 1992 |
OPUS Source: | Kaiserslautern ; Saarbrücken : DFKI, 1992 |
SWD key words: | Künstliche Intelligenz Computerlinguistik Semantik Schnittstelle |
DDC notations: | 004 Computer science, internet |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | Syntax/Semantics interfaces using unification-based or feature-based formalisms are increasingly common in the existing computational linguistics literature. The primary reason for attempting to specify a syntax/semantics interface in feature structures is that it harmonizes so well with the way in which syntax is now normally described; this close harmony means that syntactic and semantic processing (and indeed other processing, see below) can be as tightly coupled as one wishes - indeed, there need not be any fundamental distinction between them at all. In this paper, we first point out several advantages of the unification-based view of the syntax/semantics interface over standard views. These include (i) a more flexible relation to nonsyntactic constraints on semantics; (ii) a characterization of semantic ambiguity, which in turn provides a framework in which to describe disambiguation, and (iii) the opportunity to underspecify meanings in a way difficult to reconcile with other views. The last point is illustrated with an application to the notorious scope ambiguity problem. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-36111 hdl:20.500.11880/24914 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-24858 |
Series name: | Research report / Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz [ISSN 0946-008x] |
Series volume: | 92-42 |
Date of registration: | 27-May-2011 |
Faculty: | SE - Sonstige Einrichtungen |
Department: | SE - DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz |
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