Formal Semantics of Chinese Discourse Based on Compositional Discourse Representation Theory

2011 ◽  
pp. 470-476
Author(s):  
Qing-jiang Wang ◽  
Lin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Representation Theory

Semantics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beaver ◽  
Joey Frazee
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Representation Theory ◽  
Hybrid Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

Formal semantics is the study of linguistic meaning using precise mathematical characterizations; this chapter introduces formal semantics to scholars and students of natural-language processing. We give simple logical representations of English sentences, and show how meanings are composed in a grammar. We then consider two more advanced issues that arise in processing texts, anaphora and temporality, using Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). Finally we discuss the relationship between deep logic-based methods for semantic analysis and shallower distributional methods that have been used in much recent NLP work, introducing some limitations of distributional methods, and hence motivating deeper or hybrid approaches.

scholarly journals Locating adverbials in discourse

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURE VIEU ◽  
MYRIAM BRAS ◽  
NICHOLAS ASHER ◽  
MICHEL AURNAGUE
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Representation Theory ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Discourse Connectives

This article analyses Locating Adverbials (LAs) such as un peu plus tard, ce matin, deux kilomètres plus loin (‘a little later’, ‘this morning’, ‘two kilometers further’) when they are dislocated to the left of the sentence (IP Adjuncts cases). Although not discourse connectives, in such a position, they seem to play an important part in structuring discourse. It is this contribution of LAs to discourse that we tackle, providing a descriptive analysis and a formal account grounded on Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. In particular, we deal with the frame introducer role of the LAs and with spatio-temporal interpretations of these markers occurring in trajectory descriptions.

Meaning and Interpretation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Dynamic Semantics ◽  
Context Dependency ◽  
Discourse Representation ◽  
Discourse Representation Theory ◽  
Dynamic Character ◽  
Hans Kamp

Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation brings together fourteen papers by Hans Kamp, whose research is concerned with formal linguistics, philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science and computer science. Central to this research are problems of presupposition, context dependency, vagueness of meaning, the dynamic character of interpretation, the issues contributing to the version of dynamic semantics known as Discourse Representation Theory, and associated with the dynamic turn in the study of meaning and interpretation.

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