Lean semantic interpretation
Published 31 July 1999
Martin Romacker, Katja Markert, Udo Hahn
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Two abstraction mechanisms for streamlining the process of semantic interpretation are introduced: Configurational descriptions of dependency graphs increase the linguistic generality of interpretation schemata, while interfacing them to lexical and conceptual inheritance hierarchies reduces the amount and complexity of semantic specifications.
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We introduce two abstraction mechanisms for streamlining the process of semantic interpretation. Configurational descriptions of dependency graphs increase the linguistic generality of interpretation schemata, while interfacing them to lexical and conceptual inheritance hierarchies reduces the amount and complexity of semantic specifications. 1
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