Quantifier Scope Disambiguation

It is well known that pragmatic knowl- edge is useful and necessary in many dif- ficult language processing tasks, but be- cause this knowledge is difficult to acquire and process …...

Recent work on statistical quantifier scope disambiguation (QSD) has improved upon earlier work by scoping an arbitrary num- ber and type of noun phrases. No corpus- based method, however, has …...

This paper describes a graphical semantic representation based on bottom-up ‘con- tinuation’ dependencies which has the im- portant property that its vertices define a usable set of discourse referents in …...

AbstractPeople can extract precise, complex logical meanings from text in documents such as tax forms and game rules, but language processing systems lack adequate training and evaluation resources to do …...

AbstractAlthough it is widely agreed that world knowledge plays a significant role in quantifier scope disambiguation (QSD), there has been only very limited work on how to integrate this knowledge …...