Analyzing V+Adj in situation semantics

  • Authors:

  • Jia-Ju Mao;Qiu-Lin Chen;Ru-Zhan Lu

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Sentences with V+Adj format (VA-statements) have the same syntax structure, whereas their semantic structures are always different owing to the semantic pointer of the adjective of V+Adj. In this paper we separate the verb and the adjective and start from the semantics of a VA-statement. The VA-statement can be decomposed into two statements, one formed from the verb (V-statement), and the other formed from the adjective (A-statement). We also point out the difference between the V-statement and A-statement and present a formal semantic representation using a fine-grained analysis of propositions in situation semantics. Then we propose that the verb and the adjective of V+Adj correspond to two kinds of predicates - relation and type, and give a formal model of the semantic pointer. An automatic analysis of the meaning of VA-statement is also presented. During the analysis, ambiguities that exist in VA-statements can be distinguished.