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

Generalizing Discontinuities Categorially

This paper reports on the way in which emanations of (typical Dutch) verb clusterings and (more general) long distance dependencies are captured in similar fashions by Delilah's mode of generalized composition. 1 Categorial Grammar made context-sensitiv

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