Computational Linguistic Text Processing: Logical Form, Semantic Interpretation, Discourse Relations & Question Answering

Roldolfo Delmonte

ISBN 10: 1600217001 / ISBN 13: 9781600217005

Published by Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Computational Linguistic Text Processing: Logical Form, Semantic Interpretation, Discourse Relations & Question Answering
• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1600217001
• ISBN 13: 9781600217005
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1044 grams

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Synopsis

The topic of this book is the theoretical foundations of the theory LSLT - Lexical Semantic Language Theory - and its implementation in the system for text analysis and understanding called GETARUN, developed at the University of Venice, Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Department of Language Sciences. LSLT encompasses a psycholinguistic theory of the way the language faculty works, a grammatical theory of the way in which sentences are analysed and generated - for this we will be using Lexical-Functional Grammar - a semantic theory of the way in which meaning is encoded and expressed in utterances - for this we will be using Situation Semantics, and a parsing theory of the way in which components of the theory interact in a common architecture to produce the needed language representation to be eventually spoken aloud or interpreted by the phonetic/acoustic language interface. LSLT will then be put to use to show how discourse relations are mapped automatically from text using the tools available in the 4 sub-theories, and in particular we will focus on Causal Relations showing how the various sub-theories contribute to address different types of causality.