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ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Expressing Disjunctive and Negative Feature Constraints with Classical First-Order Logic
In contrast to the "designer logic" approach, this paper shows how the attribute-value feature structures of unification grammar and constraints on them can be axiomatiz...
Mark Johnson
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
A Compositional Semantics for Focusing Subjuncts
A compositional semantics for focusing subjuncts-words such as only, even, and also--is developed from Rooth's theory of association with focus. By adapting the theory so tha...
Daniel Lyons, Graeme Hirst
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
The Computational Complexity of Avoiding Conversational Implicatures
Referring expressions and other object descriptions should be maximal under the Local Brevity, No Unnecessary Components, and Lexical Preference preference rules; otherwise, they ...
Ehud Reiter
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Free Indexation: Combinatorial Analysis and a Compositional Algorithm
The principle known as 'free indexation' plays an important role in the determination of the referential properties of noun phrases in the principleand-parameters langua...
Sandiway Fong
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Computational Structure of Generative Phonology and its Relation to Language Comprehension
We analyse the computational complexity of phonological models as they have developed over the past twenty years. The major results ate that generation and recognition are undecid...
Eric Sven Ristad