ACL
1990
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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
14 years 10 hour 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...