A generative statistical model of dependency syntax is proposed based on Tesni ere's classical theory. It provides a stochastic formalization of the original model of syntactic structure and augments it with a model of the string realization process, the latter which is lacking in Tesni ere's original work. The resulting theory models crossing dependency links, discontinuous nuclei and string m...

We introduce a framework for lightweight dependency syntax annotation. Our formalism builds upon the typical representation for unlabeled dependencies, permitting a simple notation and annotation workflow. Moreover, the formalism encourages annotators to underspecify parts of the syntax if doing so would streamline the annotation process. We demonstrate the efficacy of this annotation on three ...

This paper shows how to introduce predicative adjunction in a dependency grammar inspired from TAG, MTT and RG. The addition of predicative adjunction allows us to obtain a modular surface syntactic grammar, the derivation structures of which can be interpreted as semantic representations.

In this talk, we contend that, for NLs, the divide between model-theoretic semantics and proof-theoretic semantics has not been well-understood. In particular, the formal semantics based on modern type theories (MTTs) may be seen as both model-theoretic and prooftheoretic. To be more precise, it may be seen both ways in the sense that the NL semantics can first be represented in an MTT in a mod...

Strategic intelligence involves the efforts to understand the "Big Picture" emerging from data sources. Concerning textual data, this process involves the extraction of meaning from textual information. In this paper we present a new methodology for meaning extraction from news articles. This methodology is based on the gradual construction of visual maps from processed textual information. The...

We describe the design of an LFG-based generation system that provides a framework for empirical studies on the choice among grammatical paraphrases (i.e. syntactic alternations), as an effect of interacting soft constraints. To be able to study the relevant variation, we extend the XLE generation architecture so it no longer departs from standard f-structures, but from a more abstract level of...

This discussion presents several alternative strategies for approaching the problem of semantic interoperability, based on recent projects to develop software agents and systems that attempt to reconcile ontological differences without explicit ontologies. The difficulties of reconciling explicit ontologies are discussed, and possibilities for meaning negotiation through implicit approaches are...

Résumé meaning. Offering a case study from the South African art music repertoire, the example chosen for this purpose is ‘Die Meisie’ (‘The Girl’), the first of five songs from Hubert du Plessis’s cycle Die Vrou (‘The Woman’). This text allows for an exceptionally productive exploration of the role of ideology in the figurative construction of musical meaning, uncovering contested points of di...

In Construction Grammar, structurally patterned units called constructions are assigned meaning in the same way that words are – via convention rather than composition. That is, rather than piecing semantics together from individual lexical items, Construction Grammar proposes that semantics can be assigned at the construction level. In this paper, we investigate whether a classifier can be tau...