This paper presents an overview of the GBGen system, a sentence realizer currently developped for French. The system is strictly deterministic, i.e. it maps semantic structures to surface forms without either simulating parallelism or using backtracking, and the performances are accordingly extremely satisfying. It is procedural, based on Government & Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981): several leve...

This paper summarizes some of the research on verb predicates that has taken place at the University of Central Florida during the last few years. It also describes how this research may be related to the MEANING project. The point is made that the de nition of predicates linked to a general ontology, such as that of WordNet, and to grammatical relations can solve the crucial issues of verb and...

A method of syntactic disambiguation based on proper prepositional phrase attachment, or, more generally, attachment of the clauses in specific grammatical cases, is described. The research was based on Spanish and Russian material. The data set built and used by the procedure is a kind of a syntactic government patterns dictionary. The algorithm requires a morphological and a syntactic parser ...

This paper is the continuation of Ferrández [5][4] in which we have developed a computational system in Prolog (Slot Unification Parser or SUP) that includes a new grammatical formalism (Slot Unification Grammar or SUG). In this work, we are going to deal with several kinds of anaphora both in restricted and unrestricted texts: pronominal anaphora, surface count anaphora and one-anaphora. We on...

We describe the treatment of verbs with prepositional complements in HaGenLex, a semantically based computer lexicon for German. Prepositional verbs such as bestehen auf (‘insist on’) subcategorize for a prepositional phrase where the preposition usually has no independent meaning of its own. The lexical semantic information in HaGenLex is specified by means of MultiNet, a full-fledged knowledg...

We explore some Web-based methods to differentiate strings of words corresponding to Spanish prepositional phrases that can perform either as a regular prepositional phrase or as idiomatic prepositional phrase. The type of these Spanish prepositional phrases is preposition–nominal phrase–preposition (P−NP−P), for example: por medio de ‘by means of’, a fin de ‘in order to’, con respecto a ‘with ...

English uses the same prepositions to describe both spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., at the corner, at 1:30), and other languages worldwide exhibit similar patterns. These space-time parallelisms have been explained by the Metaphoric Mapping Theory, which maintains that humans have a cognitive predisposition to structure temporal concepts in terms of spatial schemas through the applica...

Abstract The paper has a specific and focused aim: to unveil possible route DOM, the crosslinguistically widely attested phenomenon whereby direct objects are introduced by preposition, with interpretive constraints. prepositional marker is ‘a’ in Italian (the majority of) Romance. investigation based on both comparative data from Romance some relevant experimental results acquisition of involv...