Text understanding with GETARUNS for Q/A and summarization

  • Authors:
  • Rodolfo Delmonte

  • Affiliations:
  • Università Ca' Foscari, San Marco, Venezia

  • Venue:
  • TextMean '04 Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Summarization and Question Answering need precise linguistic information with a much higher coverage than what is being offered by currently available statistically based systems. We assume that the starting point of any interesting application in these fields must necessarily be a good syntacticsemantic parser. In this paper we present the system for text understanding called GETARUNS, General Text and Reference Understanding System (Delmonte, 2003a). The heart of the system is a rule-based top-down DCG-style parser, which uses an LFG oriented grammar organization. The parser produces an f-structure as a DAG which is then used to create a Logical Form, the basis for all further semantic representation. GETARUNS, has a highly sophisticated linguistically based semantic module which is used to build up the Discourse Model. Semantic processing is strongly modularized and distributed amongst a number of different submodules which take care of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, Discourse Level Anaphora Resolution.