Title :
Semantic and syntactic analyses for english sentences with structure of parasitic gap
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Foreign Languages & Literature, Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Semantic and syntactic analyses for English sentences with structure of parasitic gap have not been seen, in order to solve this problem, the work of this paper is: 1. Syntactic analyses: introducing functional node based on the syntax-semantics interface; based on the operations of selection, merge, and move in the Minimalist Program, establishing the syntactic parse tree with p-signature. 2. Semantic analyses: for the phonologically null traces in the sentence, extracting the lambda-expressions, introducing the semantic augmentation template, obtaining the normal form of lambda-expression through lambda-calculus. 3. Establishing semantics-syntax interface for sentences. The interface indicates the correspondence between the results of semantic and syntactic analyses.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; grammars; lambda calculus; natural language processing; English sentence; functional node; lambda-calculus; p-signature; parasitic gap; semantic analysis; semantic augmentation template; syntactic analysis; syntactic parse tree; syntax-semantics interface; Cybernetics; Machine learning; Natural language understanding; interface; parasitic gap; semantic analyses; syntactic analyses;
Conference_Titel :
Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baoding
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3702-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3703-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICMLC.2009.5212294