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A compositional and constraint-based approach to non-sentential utterances

Author(s) -

David Schlangen,

Alex Lascarides

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1535-1793

DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2003.21

Subject(s) - utterance , computer science , sentence , constraint (computer aided design) , context (archaeology) , interpretation (philosophy) , natural language processing , linguistics , semantics (computer science) , resolution (logic) , artificial intelligence , semantic interpretation , programming language , mathematics , philosophy , history , geometry , archaeology

We present an approach to the interpretation of non-sententialutterances like B's utterance in the following mini-dialogue:A: ˋˋWho came to the party?''B: ˋˋPeter.´´Such utterances pose several puzzles: they conveyˋsentence-type' messages (propositions, questions or request)while being of non-sentential form; and they are constrainedboth semantically and syntactically by the context. We addressthese puzzles in our approach which is compositional, since weprovide a formal semantics for such fragments independent oftheir context, and constraint-based because resolution isbased on collecting contextual constraints.

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