The Correspondence between Syntax and Semantics

The Boundary between Syntax and Semantics

Interaction between syntax and semantics: The case of gerund translation

Standard architectures favor sequential processes for the semantic and syntactic part of natural language generation. Some semantic decisions, however, require information from the syntactic part, as is shown at the example of translating English gerunds into German. As a solution to this problem, a model is proposed in which syntactic and semantic modules work in parallel, computing preference...

Integrating Syntax and Semantics

Well-known examples such as Bar-Hillel's (1960) "The box is in the pen" illustrate that extensive semantic analysis is necessary to resolve ambiguities that must be resolved in machine translation. If one accepts the premise that semantics should be added to the analysis techniques used in machine translation, what is the way in which it should be added? This paper will argue for an integrated ...

Equivariant Syntax and Semantics

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Viewcharts: Syntax and Semantics

In this paper, we present a method for describing the syntax and semantics of viewcharts. Viewcharts is a visual formalism for describing the dynamic behavior of system components. We define the syntax of viewcharts as attributed graphs and, based on this graph, describe dynamic semantics of viewcharts by object mapping automata. This approach covers many important constructs of viewcharts, inc...