Compositional Semantics

Traditionally, translation from the parse tree repre- senting a sentence to a semantic representation (such as frames or procedural semantics) has a/ways been the most ad hoc part of natural …...

This paper describes a compositional semantics for temporal expressions as part of the meaning representation language (MRL) of the JANUS system, a natural language understanding and generation sys- tem under …...

A compositional semantics for focusing subjuncts-- words such as only, even, and also--is developed from Rooth's theory of association with focus. By adapting the theory so that it can be …...

The paper discusses how compositional semantics is implemented in the Verb- mobil speech-to-speech translation sys- tem using LUD, a description language for underspecified discourse representa- tion structures. The description lan- …...

In contrast to LFG and HPSG, there is to date no large scale Tree Adjoining Gram- mar (TAG) equiped with a compositional semantics. In this paper, we report on the …...

Determining the polarity of a sentiment- bearing expression requires more than a sim- ple bag-of-words approach. In particular, words or constituents within the expression can interact with each other to …...

. The purpose of designing the lexical semantic representation model E-HowNet is for natural language understanding. E-HowNet is a frame-based entity-relation model extended from HowNet to define lexical senses and …...

We present a compositional framework for modelling entity-level sentiment (sub)contexts, and demonstrate how holistic multi-entity polar- ity scoring emerges as a by-product of composi- tional sentiment parsing. A data set …...

We present an approach to model hid- den attributes in the compositional se- mantics of adjective-noun phrases in a distributional model. For the represen- tation of adjective meanings, we refor- …...

AbstractNatural language descriptions of visual media present interesting problems for linguistic annotation of spatial information. This paper explores the use of ISO-Space, an annotation specification to capturing spatial information, for …...

Word formation via compounding is a very widely observed but quite diverse phenomenon across the world’s languages, but the compositional semantics of a compound are often productively correlated between even …...