Generating LTAG grammars from a lexicon/ontology interface
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This paper shows how domain-specific grammars can be automatically generated from a declarative model of the lexicon-ontology interface and how those grammars can be used for question answering. We show a specific implementation of the approach using Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars. The main characteristic of the generated elementary trees is that they constitute domains of locality that span lexicalizations of ontological concepts rather than being based on requirements of single lexical heads.
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