Modular graph rewriting to compute semantics

  • Authors:
  • Guillaume Bonfante;Bruno Guillaume;Mathieu Morey;Guy Perrier

  • Affiliations:
  • Nancy-Université - LORIA;INRIA - LORIA;Nancy-Université - LORIA;Nancy-Université - LORIA

  • Venue:
  • IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Taking an asynchronous perspective on the syntax-semantics interface, we propose to use modular graph rewriting systems as the model of computation. We formally define them and demonstrate their use with a set of modules which produce underspecified semantic representations from a syntactic dependency graph. We experimentally validate this approach on a set of sentences. The results open the way for the production of underspecified semantic dependency structures from corpora annotated with syntactic dependencies and, more generally, for a broader use of modular rewriting systems for computational linguistics.