ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
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...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
We present a new grammatical formalism called Constraint Dependency Grammar (CDG) in which every grammatical rule is given as a constraint on wordto-word modifications. CDG parsin...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
We discuss algorithms for generation within the Lambek Theorem Proving Framework. Efficient algorithms for generation in this framework take a semantics-driven strategy. This stra...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
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...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
Current complex-feature based grammars use a single procedure--unification--for a multitude of purposes, among them, enforcing formal agreement between purely syntactic features. ...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
A method of determining the similarity of nouns on the basis of a metric derived from the distribution of subject, verb and object in a large text corpus is described. The resulti...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
In this paper, we represent singular definite noun phrases as functions in logical form. This representation is designed to model the behaviors of both anaphoric and non-anaphoric...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
In the right situation, a speaker can use an unqualified indefinite description without being misunderstood. This use of language, normal slate implicature, is a kind of conversat...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
In the literature, Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAGs) are propagated to be adequate for natural language description -- analysis as well as generation. In this paper we concentrate on...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
1990
The limited capacity of working memory is intrinsic to human sentence processing, and therefore must be addressed by any theory of human sentence processing. This paper gives a th...