Investigating different graph representations of semantics
Petter Ericson · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2016
Combinatory Categorial Grammar is a generic approach to the mechanical understanding of language, where movement is minimised in favour of using combinators such as B (composition) and T (type lifting) to clearly define in which ways various constituents can refer to each other. Taking the tree languages induced by the syntactic derivations and connecting the various leaves linked through the semantics, one ends up with a class of graph languages. The present work aims to point out promising avenues of research in order to investigate this class, specifically in terms of similarities with other graph-based semantic representations, such as Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR), and furthermore what graph generating or recognising formalism would be most suitable to define the class characteristics.