Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
Computational Linguistics
Lexical Operations in a Unification-Based Framework
Proceedings of the First SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Lexical Structures or Linguistic Inference
Proceedings of the First SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Lexical semantic techniques for corpus analysis
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
On the semantic interpretation of nominals
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Enjoy the paper: lexical semantics via lexicology
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
A probabilistic account of logical metonymy
Computational Linguistics
On the proper role of coercion in semantic typing
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Processing metonymy: a domain-model heuristic graph traversal approach
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Productivity, Polysemy, and Predicate Indexicality
Logic, Language, and Computation
Sense-based interpretation of logical metonymy using a statistical method
ACLstudent '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop
A computational model of logical metonymy
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP) - Special issue on multiword expressions: From theory to practice and use, part 2
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The interpretation of coercion constructions (to begin a book) has been recently considered as resulting from the operation of type changing. For instance, a phrase of type o (object) is coerced to a phrase of type e (event) under the influence of the predicate. We show that this procedure encounters empirical difficulties. Focussing on the begin/commencer case, we show that the coercion interpretation results both from general semantic processes and properties of the predicate, and we argue that it is best represented at the lexical level. The solution is formulated in the HPSG formalism, where the lexical description of heads includes a specification of the argument and articulates syntax and semantics. We propose that the properties attached to the complement remain the same as they are outside the construction, but that the semantics of the predicate is enriched to include an abstract predicate of which the complement is an argument.