Towards a large-scale formal semantic lexicon for text processing !
Johan Bos · 2009
We define a first-order fragment of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and present a syntax-semantics interface based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) (with five basic categories N, NP, S, PP and T) for a large fragment of English. In order to incorporate a neo-Davidsonian view of event semantics in a compositional DRT framework we argue that the method of continuationis the best approach to deal with event modifiers. Within this theoretical framework, the lexical categories of CCGbank were associated with the formal semantic representations of our DRT variant, reaching high coverage of which practical text processing systems can benifit.