This work presents the migration process of a syntactic grammar of Basque from one formalism to another. Due to differences in the formalisms and the kind of grammars, it is not possible to make a direct translation. As a consequence, the construction of a new grammar by a linguist must start almost from scratch. For this reason we devised an experiment in parallel with the manual construction ...

This paper aims to show that semantic representation of verbs may require the inclusion of constructional inferences in addition to lexical specifications. By examining the transitive pattern of the Mandarin verb GAN (,y) 'rush' , we found that verbal semantics can only be adequately represented if constructionally coerced information is taken into consideration. The construction [GAN + NP] ren...

<p>Theoretical linguistics and teaching are concurrent, that is, neither can exist without the other. In other words, decisions made in (foreign) language will inevitably affect how testing evaluation as a concept is designed administered. For example, if curriculum states English foreign teachers need to make distinction between gerund an infinitive classroom teach it such, then, this be...

Developing a Tree Adjoining Grammar which contains the information necessary for building the basic compositional semantics of sentences is a highly complex engineering task. To ensure consistency, ease of writing, of maintainance and of debugging, it is therefore important that this information be described at the appropriate level of abstraction. In the first part of this paper (sections 2 an...

The notion of reversibility that is salient for grammars rests on the idea that grammars are transducers between strings of words and some more abstract meaning representation. The grammar is reversible if the transducer will work in both directions. The notion was important in driving the evolution from procedural grammar formalisms, like ATN, to declaritive formalisms, like LFG and HPSG. The ...

Linguistic utterances are full of errors and novel expressions, yet linguistic communication is remarkably robust. This paper presents a double-layered architecture for open-ended language processing, in which ‘diagnostics’ and ‘repairs’ operate on a meta-level for detecting and solving problems that may occur during habitual processing on a routine layer. Through concrete operational examples,...

Research in the origins and evolution of language has now reached a level where languages with grammatical structures are emerging in computer simulations and robotic experiments based on situated embodied language games played by populations of agents. This paper focuses on some of the technical AI issues related to this research. Specifically, we report on a system for planning complex meanin...

This paper presents a Logic Programming approach to parsing and production in Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) [13]. It builds on previous work on the formalisation of FCG in terms of First Order Logic (FOL) concepts, more specifically on the definition of its core inference operations, unification and merge, in terms of FOL unification and search in the space of a particular set of FOL terms c...

This chapter has two objectives. It discusses a design pattern for phrasal constructions and introduces the templates that can be used to instantiate this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar, using as illustration nominal phrases such as “the green mouse” or “this mouse of mine”. Phrasal constructions not only build phrases but also combine the meanings contributed by their constituents and p...