title: Description Theory, LTAGs and Underspecified Semantics
creator: Muskens, Reinhard
creator: Krahmer, Emiel
subject: Computational Linguistics
subject: Semantics
subject: Syntax
description: An attractive way to model the relation between an underspecified syntactic representation and its completions is to let the underspecified representation correspond to a  logical description and the completions to the models of that description. This approach, which underlies the Description Theory of (Marcus et al. 1983)  has been integrated in (Vijay-Shanker 1992) with a pure unification approach to  Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars  (Joshi et al.\ 1975, Schabes 1990). We generalize  Description Theory by integrating semantic information, that is, we propose to tackle both syntactic and semantic underspecification using descriptions.
date: 1998
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/5045/1/tagplus.pdf
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/5045/2/tagplus.ps
identifier:   Muskens, Reinhard and Krahmer, Emiel  (1998) Description Theory, LTAGs and Underspecified Semantics.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/5045/