Constraint Propagation

Theodes of semantic interpretation which wish to capture as many generalizations as possible must face up to the manifoldly ambiguous and contextually dependent nature of word meaning? In this paper …...

We present a new grammatical formalism called Con- straint Dependency Grammar (CDG) in which every grammatical rule is given as a constraint on word- to-word modifications. CDG parsing is formalized …...

Linguistic access to uncertain quantita- tive knowledge about physical properties is provided by dimensional adjectives, e.g. long-short in the spatial and tempo- ral senses, near-far, fast-slow, etc. Seman- tic analyses …...