Formal Semantics for Dependency Grammar

Dag T. T. Haug, Jamie Y. Findlay


Abstract
In this paper, we provide an explicit interface to formal semantics for Dependency Grammar, based on Glue Semantics. Glue Semantics has mostly been developed in the context of Lexical Functional Grammar, which shares two crucial assumptions with Dependency Grammar: lexical integrity and allowance of nonbinary-branching syntactic structure. We show how Glue can be adapted to the Dependency Grammar setting and provide sample semantic analyses of quantifier scope, control infinitives and relative clauses.
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2023.depling-1.3
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Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)
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March
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2023
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Washington, D.C.
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Owen Rambow, François Lareau
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DepLing | SyntaxFest
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SIGPARSE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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22–31
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Dag T. T. Haug and Jamie Y. Findlay. 2023. Formal Semantics for Dependency Grammar. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), pages 22–31, Washington, D.C.. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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