The automatic disambiguation of verbs in domain independent text becomes more and more important for applications such as Machine Translation, Text Summarization, and Question Answering, mainly because verbs play a key factor in the syntactic and semantic interpretation of sentences. In this paper we present a system for the automatic classification of token verbs in context based on VerbNet cl...

S p r i n g e r V e r l a g Abstract. We present an approach to semantic interpretation of syntactically parsed Japanese sentences that works largely parser-independent. The approach relies on a standardized parse tree format that restricts the number of syntactic con gurations that the semantic interpretation rules have to anticipate. All parse trees are converted to this format prior to seman...

A languageindependent method of finitestate surface syntactic parsing and word-disambiguation is discussed. Input sentences are represented as finite-state networks already containing all possible roles and interpretations of its units. Also syntactic constraint rules are represented as finite-state machines where each constraint excludes certain types of ungrammatical readings. The whole gramm...

Many German nominalizations with the affix -ung are sortally ambiguous. Within a sentence, lexico-semantic and/or syntactic phenomena may support disambiguation. The sortal interpretation of a nominalization may vary depending on the underlying syntactic analysis of one and the same, syntactically ambiguous sentence. We model the process of sortal disambiguation as a constraint-based incrementa...

In standard Montague Semantics we find a very close correspondence between syntactic and semantic rules (the ‘Rule-to-Rule Hypothesis’). This is attractive from a processing point of view, as we like to think of syntactic and semantic processing as being done in tandem, with information flowing in both directions, from parsing to interpretation and vice versa. The parsing procedure erects the n...

In 2 experiments, eye tracking methodology was used to assess on-line lexical, syntactic and semantic processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In Experiment 1, lexical identification was examined by manipulating the frequency of target words. Both typically developed (TD) and ASD readers showed normal frequency effects, suggesting that the processes TD and ASD readers engage in to identify...

We report on a mechanism for semantic and pragmatic interpretation that has been designed to take advantage of the generally compositional nature of semantic analysis, without unduly constraining the order in which pragmatic decisions are made. To achieve this goal, we introduce the idea of a conditional interpretation: one that depends upon a set of assumptions about subsequent pragmatic proce...