Roles, co-descriptors, and the formal representation of quantified English expressions

Authors:
William A. Martin
Affiliations:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Venue:
Computational Linguistics
Year:
1981

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Abstract

A scheme is proposed for representing the logical form of English sentences, wherein the meaning of a network node depends on how it is related through "role-in" links to nodes representing more aggregate entities. It is argued that roles are a natural device for capturing many linguistic and philosophic distinctions, and that they are convenient for computational processing. In particular, it is shown how role-in links may be advantageously used in lieu of quantifier scope to represent quantificational dependencies.