TEAM: an experiment in the design of transportable natural-language interfaces
Artificial Intelligence
Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
Information-based syntax and semantics: Vol. 1: fundamentals
PROLOG and Natural Language Analysis
PROLOG and Natural Language Analysis
Analysis of conjunctions in a rule-based parser
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A general computational treatment of the comparative
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Quantifier scoping in the SRI core language engine
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A general computational treatment of comparatives for natural language question answering
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Parsing and interpreting comparatives
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An integrated framework for semantic and pragmatic interpretation
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
D-PATR: a development environment for unification-based grammars
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
EACL '91 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Interpreting comparative constructions in biomedical text
BioNLP '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP 2007: Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing
Grading knowledge: extracting degree information from texts
Grading knowledge: extracting degree information from texts
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
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We describe a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of comparative constructions based on theoretical work by Pinkham, which can be implemented in a relatively straightforward fashion within a feature-based phrase-structure grammar. Comparatives are divided up into "clausal" and "phrasal" constructions; in contrast to most previous theories, however, phrasals are not regarded as reduced forms of clausals. We begin by defining a Montagovian semantics for phrasal comparatives that directly links interpretation rules to the surface syntactic structure; we then show how this solution can be made computationally more efficient by "factoring" the interpretation through an intermediate level of representation, using a method similar to that used for dealing with scoping phenomena. Detailed examples are provided, showing how the method can correctly describe the semantics of a variety of superficially widely different comparative constructions. The ideas have all been implemented within a large-scale grammar for Swedish, a "toy" version of which is presented, along with examples of the output.