A translation from logic to English with dynamic semantics

  • Authors:
  • Elizabeth Coppock;David Baxter

  • Affiliations:
  • Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a procedure for translating predicate logic into English, which generates both referring and non-referring expressions using a dynamically updated context representation. The system treats referring and non-referring expressions within a unified framework, capturing their common properties - both bound and referential anaphora require an accessible antedecent - and the special properties of non-referring expressions: Non-referring expressions are introduced with quantificational determiners, and correspond to short-term discourse referents.