Cognitive Compositional Semantics using Continuation Dependencies
William Schuler, Adam Wheeler · 2014
This paper describes a graphical semantic representation based on bottom-up ‘con-tinuation ’ dependencies which has the im-portant property that its vertices define a usable set of discourse referents in work-ing memory even in contexts involving conjunction in the scope of quantifiers. An evaluation on an existing quantifier scope disambiguation task shows that non-local continuation dependencies can be as reli-ably learned from annotated data as repre-sentations used in a state-of-the-art quanti-fier scope resolver, suggesting that contin-uation dependencies may provide a natural representation for scope information. 1