Open AccessBanking Meaning Representations from Treebanks
Author(s) -
Alistair Butler,
Kei Yoshimoto
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
linguistic issues in language technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-3590
pISSN - 1945-3604
DOI - 10.33011/lilt.v7i.1269
Subject(s) - treebank , computer science , parsing , natural language processing , construct (python library) , meaning (existential) , predicate (mathematical logic) , artificial intelligence , component (thermodynamics) , linguistics , programming language , psychology , philosophy , physics , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
This paper describes a method to convert existing treebanks with syntactic information into banks of meaning representations. The central component is a system of evaluation for a small formal language with respect to an information state. Inputs to the evaluation system are formal language expressions obtained from the conversion of parsed representations conforming to (Penn Treebank Project) guidelines. Outputs from the evaluation system are Davidsonian (higher-order) predicate logic meaning representations. Having a system of evaluation as the basis for generating meaning representations makes possible accepting input with minimal conversion from existing treebanks and from the tools used to construct treebanks. Results of having built corresponding banks of meaning representations from available treebanks are discussed.