Unification-based semantic interpretation in the BBN Spoken Language System

  • Authors:
  • David Stallard

  • Affiliations:
  • BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • HLT '89 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

This paper describes the current state of work on unification-based semantic interpretation in HARC (for Hear and Recognize Continous speech) the BBN Spoken Language System. It presents the implementation of an integrated syntax/semantics grammar written in a unification formalism similar to Definite Clause Grammar. This formalism is described, and its use in solving a number of semantic interpretation problems is shown. These include, among others, the encoding of semantic selectional restrictions and the representation of relational nouns and their modifiers.