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Processing Underspecified Semantic Descriptions in the Constraint Language for Lambda Structures

Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, and Joachim Niehren

Journal of Language & Computation. To appear, 2002.

The constraint language for lambda structures (CLLS) is an expressive language of tree descriptions which combines dominance constraints with powerful parallelism and binding constraints. CLLS was introduced as a uniform framework for defining underspecified semantics representations of natural language sentences, covering scope, ellipsis, and anaphora. This article presents saturation-based algorithms for processing the complete language of CLLS and gives an overview of previous results on questions of processing and complexity.


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@Misc{ErkKolNie02, 
   author = {Katrin Erk and Alexander Koller and Joachim Niehren}, 
   title  = {Processing Underspecified Semantic Descriptions in the 
             Constraint Language for Lambda Structures}, 
   year   = 2002, 
   howpublished = {Journal of Language & Computation. To 
             appear} 
} 

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