Meaning versus Grammar

This volume investigates the complicated relationship between grammar, computation, and meaning in natural languages. It details conditions under which meaning-driven processing of natural language is feasible, discusses an operational and accessible implementation of the grammatical cycle for Dutch, and offers analyses of a number of further conjectures about constituency and entailment in natural language

Extracting aspects of determiner meaning from dialogue in a virtual world environment

We use data from a virtual world game for automated learning of words and grammatical constructions and their meanings. The language data are an integral part of the social interaction in the game and consist of chat dialogue, which is only constrained by the cultural context, as set by the nature of the provided virtual environment. Building on previous work, where we extracted a vocabulary for concrete objects in the game by making use of the non-linguistic context, we now target NP/DP grammar, in particular determiners. We assume that we have captured the meanings of a set of determiners if we can predict which determiner will be used in a particular context. To this end we train a classifier that predicts the choice of a determiner on the basis of features from the linguistic and non-linguistic context.Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Rubicon grant, project nr. 446-09-011

Exploiting logical forms

This paper presents a semantic setup for Dutch on the basis of deep processing. The parser and generator Delilah computes a system of logical forms that is both semantically adequate, and instrumental in processing tasks like disambiguation and inference. The logical forms are derivationally related but differ as to the level of specification and exploitability. The semantic setup is new, and is likely to be the first computed, fully specified semantics for Dutch. One of the logical forms introduces a new way of compiling out semantic dependencies. The resulting system is discussed at the crossroad of logical semantics and computational linguistics

Meaning versus Grammar : an inquiry into the computation of meaning and the incompleteness of grammar

Meaning versus Grammar investigates the complicated relationship between grammar, computation, and meaning in natural languages. It details conditions under which meaning-driven processing of natural language is feasible, discusses an operational and accessible implementation of the grammatical cycle for Dutch, and offers analyses of a number of further conjectures about constituency and entailment in natural language.9789400601833 (epdf); 9789400601840 (epub)Wetensch. publicati

Meaning versus Grammar: an inquiry into the computation of meaning and the incompleteness of grammar

Meaning versus Grammar investigates the complicated relationship between grammar, computation, and meaning in natural languages. It details conditions under which meaning-driven processing of natural language is feasible, discusses an operational and accessible implementation of the grammatical cycle for Dutch, and offers analyses of a number of further conjectures about constituency and entailment in natural language