To provide a technique for managing syntactic and semantic ambiguity.
This method for managing syntactic and semantic ambiguity can make two different kinds of processing and representation of ambiguity to work together. This techniques allow a linear logic semantic assembly to work with a packed functional (f) structure and provide for contexted version of linear logic in which a semantic contribution can be read from the packed functional (f) structure and pre-pended with the contents of the functional (f) structure to which they pertain. The linear logic reasoning can be executed in the contexted linear logic to derive a possible meaning from the contexted contribution from the packed functional (f) structure. Deductions in the contexted linear logic do not require fully expanding each syntactic parse. A technique applying skeleton/modifier techniques to a contexted reasoning is provided by generating a contexted modifier applicable only for a specific syntactic reading manner. Such a technique recognizes both quantifier scope ambiguity and attachment ambiguity in a representation that uses an efficient skeleton/modifier representation where possible and a contexted representation otherwise.
CROUCH RICHARD S
DALRYMPLE MARY E
SHEMTOV HADAR
Jun Ishida