Integrating Syntax and Semantics
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چکیده
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 approach to semantic processing. That is, syntactic and semantic processing should take place at the same time, rather than in separate stages. However, although I will argue for the integration of syntactic and semantic analysis processes, I will also argue for the use of a separate body of syntactic knowledge, and for building a separate syntactic representation during the parsing process. This is in contrast to previous integrated parsers, which have relied almost exclusively on semantic representations to guide the parsing process, and which have not used a separate body of syntactic rules. 1 This research was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence laboratory of Yale University, and was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense and monitored by the Office of Naval Research under contract No. N00014-82K-0149.
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