An Underspecified HPSG Representation for Information Structure

hfformation structure can be of great use in linguistic applications, especially in those involving a speech component. However, focus marking by prosody is often ambiguous. Existing theories capture this by rules that produce alternative focus structures. This disjunction is hard to handle computationally. In this paper, a compact, graphically underspecified representation is proposed, along with composition principles and a resolution routine based on context information.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Jonas Kuhn
• Keywords: Alternative Focus Structures, COLING 1996, COLING 2008, Hfformation Structure, Linguistic Applications