Underspecified Beta Reduction

For ambiguous sentences, traditional semantics construction produces large numbers of higher-order formulas, which must then be -reduced individually. Underspecified versions can produce compact descriptions of all readings, but it is not known how to perform -reduction on these descriptions. We show how to do this using -reduction constraints in the constraint language for -structures (CLLS).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Manuel Bodirsky, Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren
• Keywords: ACL 2001, ACL 2007, Ambiguous Sentences, Compact Descriptions, Traditional Semantics Construction