Feature-Based & Model-Based Semantics for English, French and German Verb Phrases  

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Kent, Stuart ; Pitt, Jeremy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 1-2 (1996), page 339-362.
Fulltext: 18_01-02_Kent.pdf (1.4MB)

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This paper considers the relative merits of using features and formal event models to characterise the semantics of English, French and German verb phrases, and considers the application of such semantics in machine translation. The featurebased approach represents the semantics in terms of feature systems, which have been widely used in computational linguistics for syntactic representation of complex systems. The paper shows how a simple intutive semantics of verb phrases may be encoded as a feature system, and how this can be used to support modular construction of automatic translation systems through feature look-up tables. One such translator, from English to French and German, is described. The paper continues to formalise the feature-based approach via a model-based, Montague semantics, which extends previous work on the semantics of English verb phrases. In so doing, repercussions of and to this framework in conducting a contrastive semantic study are considered. The model-based approach also promises to provide support for a more sophisticated approach to translation through logical proof; the paper indicates further work required for the fulfilment of this promise.

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