A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on Dependency Grammar

Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Alexander Koller, Marco Kuhlmann, Gert Smolka, and Stefan Thater

Proceedings of the 20th COLING, Geneva, 2004.

We propose a syntax-semantics interface that realises the mapping between syntax and semantics as a relation and does not make functionality assumptions in either direction. This interface is stated in terms of Extensible Dependency Grammar (XDG), a grammar formalism we newly specify. XDG's constraint-based parser supports the concurrent flow of information between any two levels of linguistic representation, even when only partial analyses are available. This generalises the concept of underspecification.

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BibTex Entry

@InProceedings{DebDucKolKuhSmoTha04, 
   author = {Ralph Debusmann and Denys Duchier and Alexander Koller 
             and Marco Kuhlmann and Gert Smolka and Stefan Thater}, 
   title  = {A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on 
             Dependency Grammar}, 
   year   = 2004, 
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th COLING}, 
   address = {Geneva} 
} 

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