Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
An implementable semantics for comparative constructions
Computational Linguistics
A general computational treatment of the comparative
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The lexical semantics of comparative expressions in a multi-level semantic processor
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Grading knowledge: extracting degree information from texts
Grading knowledge: extracting degree information from texts
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We describe a fairly comprehensive handling of the syntax and semantics of comparative constructions. The analysis is largely based on the theory developed by Pinkham, but we advance arguments to support a different handling of phrasal comparatives - in particular, we use direct interpretation instead of C-ellipsis. We explain the reasons for dividing comparative sentences into different categories, and for each category we give an example of the corresponding Montague semantics. The ideas have all been implemented within a large-scale grammar for Swedish.