Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding
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Carlos Periñán-Pascual
Abstract
Few researchers in natural language processing are nowadays concerned with linguistically-aware applications. On the contrary, the prevailing trend is towards the search of engineering solutions to practical problems, where researchers are motivated by the immediate gratification from the stochastic paradigm. As a result, there have been few attempts to confront the new challenges in linguistics from the natural language processing approach. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the theoretical foundation underlying ARTEMIS, a knowledge-based system which is intended to simulate natural language understanding in the framework of Role and Reference Grammar. More specifically, we will focus on how to enhance this functional model in order to make argumental constructions play a decisive role in the computational analysis of the deep semantics in the text.
Abstract
Few researchers in natural language processing are nowadays concerned with linguistically-aware applications. On the contrary, the prevailing trend is towards the search of engineering solutions to practical problems, where researchers are motivated by the immediate gratification from the stochastic paradigm. As a result, there have been few attempts to confront the new challenges in linguistics from the natural language processing approach. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the theoretical foundation underlying ARTEMIS, a knowledge-based system which is intended to simulate natural language understanding in the framework of Role and Reference Grammar. More specifically, we will focus on how to enhance this functional model in order to make argumental constructions play a decisive role in the computational analysis of the deep semantics in the text.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions 1
- Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG 23
- Constructions in RRG 41
- A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian 67
- Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) 103
- Constructions as grammatical objects 143
- Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar 179
- Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding 205
- Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model 231
- Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model 271
- From idioms to sentence structures and beyond 295
- Index 331
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions 1
- Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG 23
- Constructions in RRG 41
- A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian 67
- Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG) 103
- Constructions as grammatical objects 143
- Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar 179
- Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding 205
- Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model 231
- Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model 271
- From idioms to sentence structures and beyond 295
- Index 331
