An integrated model of semantic and conceptual interpretation from dependency structures
Udo Hahn, Martin Romacker · 2000
We propose a two-layered model for computing semantic and conceptual interpretations from dependency structures. Abstract interpretation schemata generate semantic interpretations of 'minimal' dependency subgraphs, while production rules whose specification is rooted in ontological categories derive a canonical conceptual interpretation from semantic interpretation structures. Configurational descriptions of dependency graphs increase the linguistic generality of interpretation schemata, while interfacing schemata and productions to lexical and conceptual class hierarchies reduces the amount and complexity of semantic specifications.