Proceedings of TripleA 5

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Language

Modelling the Common Ground for Discourse Particles

German modal or discourse particles make a contribution to the illocutionary force of an utterance. In this paper we integrate a model of belief sets held as part of the Common Ground into the Abstract Knowledge Representation (AKR) component of the German ParGram grammar. We follow recent accounts that divide the Common Ground into individual belief state sets for each of the discourse participants. We extend the existing German ParGram grammar to be able to parse (short) dialogs and to provide “pragmatic parsing” that integrates information about the belief state of discourse participants. Within this architecture, we provide an analysis of discourse particles that is theoretically well-motivated and can simultaneously be employed in an applied computational context.publishe

XLE plus Glue : A new tool for integrating semantic analysis in XLE

This paper presents the XLE+Glue system which provides an interface between XLE and the Glue Semantics Workbench, a tool for computational Glue semantics. It describes how to develop grammars encoding glue premises and how to calculate meanings based on these premises.publishe