One way of characterising texts is in terms of the discourse structures on which they appear to be built. Each type of text, or genre, e.g. the sports report, the recipe, the serm...
Theoretical research in the area of machine translation usually involves the search for and creation of an appropriate formalism. An important issue in this respect is the way in ...
Gertjan van Noord, Joke Dorrepaal, Doug Arnold, St...
This paper shows how higher levels of generalization can be introduced into unification grammars by exploiting methods for typing grammatical objects. We discuss the strategy of u...
Marc Moens, Jonathan Calder, Ewan Klein, Mike Reap...
This paper discusses the application of a previously reported theory of explanation rhetoric (Maybury, 1988b) to the task of explaining constraint violations in a hybrid rule/fram...
Although the formalisms normally used for describing the semantics of natural languages are far from computationally tractable, it is possible to isolate particular semantic pheno...
CT Feature Unification can be integrated with Lambek Theorem Proving in a simple and straightforward way. Two principles determine all distribution of features in LTP. It is not ne...
A framework for translating speaker's meaning or intention is proposed based on two notions, Illocutionary Force Types (IFTs) for analysis and Decision Parameters (DPs) for g...