In Situ Binding: A Hybrid Approach

C. Areces and R. Bernardi. In Situ Binding: A Hybrid Approach. In Inference in Computational Semantics 4 - ICoS-4, Nancy, France, Nancy, France, 2003.

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Abstract

Due to the concatenative interpretation of its composition operator, the base categorial type logic \NLd encounters some difficulties when analyzing non-concatenative material. Hence, modeling linguistic phenomena like anaphora resolution, long distance binding, gapping, discontinuity and quantifier raising becomes a problem in this logic. We propose an extension of \NLd with hybrid operators (nominals and the \,:-operator), and show that this extension has the needed expressivity to define frame classes leading to a proper modeling of long distance binding. We focus our presentation on the treatment of quantifier phrases.

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@InProceedings{Areces2003,
  author =       "C. Areces and R. Bernardi",
  booktitle =    "Inference in Computational Semantics 4 - ICoS-4,
                 Nancy, France",
  title =        "In Situ Binding: {A} Hybrid Approach",
  year =         "2003",
  address =      "Nancy, France",
  abstract =     "Due to the concatenative interpretation of its
                 composition operator, the base categorial type logic
                 \NLd encounters some difficulties when analyzing
                 non-concatenative material. Hence, modeling linguistic
                 phenomena like anaphora resolution, long distance
                 binding, gapping, discontinuity and quantifier raising
                 becomes a problem in this logic. We propose an
                 extension of \NLd with hybrid operators (nominals and
                 the \,:-operator), and show that this extension has the
                 needed expressivity to define frame classes leading to
                 a proper modeling of long distance binding. We focus
                 our presentation on the treatment of quantifier
                 phrases.",
  keywords =     "categorial type logics, hybrid logics, quantifiers",
}