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Formal Semantics of Chinese Discourse Based on Compositional Discourse Representation Theory

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Emerging Research in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI 2011)

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To obtain formal semantics of Chinese discourse, compositional discourse representation theory was adopted to compose semantics from Chinese word to sentence and to discourse. According to syntactic rules and λ-box expressions of word categories, sentential logic expression could be created by translating from child nodes to father node in syntactic tree, then the formal representation of Chinese discourse could be further obtained by using construction procedure of DRT to resolve cross-sentential demonstrates and merge sentential DRSs. A rough prototype system was given to depict the implementment process, which will benefit establishing machine-inside representation of discourse semantics of contemporary Chinese.

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  1. School of Information Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China

    Qing-jiang Wang

  2. The Modern Education Technology Center, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou, China

    Lin Zhang

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  2. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    Duoqian Miao

  3. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 18 Chui Ling Road, Tseung Kwan, Hong Kong, SAR, China

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  4. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, 200090, Shanghai, China

    Jingsheng Lei

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Wang, Qj., Zhang, L. (2011). Formal Semantics of Chinese Discourse Based on Compositional Discourse Representation Theory. In: Deng, H., Miao, D., Wang, F.L., Lei, J. (eds) Emerging Research in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. AICI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24282-3_65

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