Some problems in early noun phrase interpretation
Chris Mellish · 1980
How does a piece of text provide the information necessary for generating a symbolic and how can a computer program be organised to pick up that information? The work described here aims to investigate some of the constraints on the timing of semantic interpretation. In particular, we are interested in seeing to what extent the meaning can be built up in an incremental way as the analysis proceeds from left to right. We look at some problems of noun phrase interpretation in such a scheme and indicate some representational ideas that help to overcome them. This paper is a brief summary of a forthcoming PhD thesis [Hellish 80].