Abstract
Although Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) are widely used for syntactic processing, there is to date no large scale TAG available which also supports semantic construction. In this paper, we present a highly factorised way of implementing a syntax/semantic interface in TAG. We then show how the resulting resource can be used to perform semantic construction either during or after derivation.
We would like to thank Benoit Crabbé, Denys Duchier, Djamé Seddah and Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie for many useful discussions on the themes discussed in this paper.
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Gardent, C., Parmentier, Y. (2005). Large Scale Semantic Construction for Tree Adjoining Grammars. In: Blache, P., Stabler, E., Busquets, J., Moot, R. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3492. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11422532_9
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