Ellipsis and Quantification: a substitutional approach
Richard Crouch (SRI International, Cambridge, UK)
TL;DR
This paper presents an order-independent substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution that aligns with previous results but simplifies the process by focusing on semantic description rather than step-by-step composition.
Contribution
It introduces a novel, order-independent method for resolving ellipsis that avoids complex interleaving of quantifier scoping and interpretation.
Findings
Achieves comparable results to previous order-sensitive methods
Simplifies ellipsis resolution process
Supports order-independent semantic interpretation
Abstract
The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to Dalrymple, Shieber and Pereira (1991), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantifier scoping and ellipsis resolution. It is argued that the order-independence results from viewing semantic interpretation as building a description of a semantic composition, instead of the more common view of interpretation as actually performing the composition
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Taxonomy
TopicsNatural Language Processing Techniques · Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization · Topic Modeling