Monotonic semantic interpretation

  • Authors:
  • Hiyan Alshawi;Richard Crouch

  • Affiliations:
  • SRI International, Cambridge Computer Science Research Centre, Cambridge, U.K.;SRI International, Cambridge Computer Science Research Centre, Cambridge, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Aspects of semantic interpretation, such as quantifier scoping and reference resolution, are often realised computationally by non-monotonic operations involving loss of information and destructive manipulation of semantic representations. The paper describes how monotonic reference resolution and scoping can be carried out using a revised Quasi Logical Form (QLF) representation. Semantics for QLF are presented in which the denotations of formulas are extended monotonically as QLF expressions are resolved.