Type-theoretical grammar
CRITTER: a translation system for agricultural market reports
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A Typology of Translation Problems for Eurotra Translation Machines
Machine Translation
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We describe two "semantically-oriented" dependency-structure formalisms, U-forms and S-forms. U-forms have been previously used in machine translation as interlingual representations, but without being provided with a formal interpretation. S-forms, which we introduce in this paper, are a scoped version of U-forms, and we define a compositional semantics mechanism for them. Two types of semantic composition are basic: complement incorporation and modifier incorporation. Binding of variables is done at the time of incorporation, permitting much flexibility in composition order and a simple account of the semantic effects of permuting several incorporations.