[PDF][PDF] The logical analysis of lexical ambiguity
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D Stallard
25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1987•aclanthology.orgTheodes of semantic interpretation which wish to capture as many generalizations as
possible must face up to the manifoldly ambiguous and contextually dependent nature of
word meaning? In this paper I present a two-level scheme of semantic interpretation in
which the first level deals with the semantic consequences of'syntactic structure and the
second with the choice of word meaning. On the first level the meanings of ambiguous
words, pronominal references, nominal compounds and metonomies are not treated as …
possible must face up to the manifoldly ambiguous and contextually dependent nature of
word meaning? In this paper I present a two-level scheme of semantic interpretation in
which the first level deals with the semantic consequences of'syntactic structure and the
second with the choice of word meaning. On the first level the meanings of ambiguous
words, pronominal references, nominal compounds and metonomies are not treated as …
Abstract
Theodes of semantic interpretation which wish to capture as many generalizations as possible must face up to the manifoldly ambiguous and contextually dependent nature of word meaning? In this paper I present a two-level scheme of semantic interpretation in which the first level deals with the semantic consequences of'syntactic structure and the second with the choice of word meaning. On the first level the meanings of ambiguous words, pronominal references, nominal compounds and metonomies are not treated as fixed, but are instead represented by free variables which range over predicates and functions. The context-dependence of lexical meaning is dealt with by the second level, a constraint propagation process which attempts to assign values to these variables on the basis of the logical coherence of the overall result. In so doing it makes use of a set of polysemy operators which map between lexical senses, thus making a potentially indefinite number of related senses available.
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