Challenging the principle of compositionality in interpreting natural language texts

Françoise Gayral (1) , Daniel Kayser (1) , François Lévy (1)

1 LIPN - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord

The paper aims at emphasizing that, even relaxed, the hypothesis of compositionality has to face many problems when used for interpreting natural language texts. Rather than fixing these problems within the compositional framework, we believe that a more radical change is necessary, and propose another approach.

Mots clés: Compositionality; semantics; default logic

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Françoise Gayral, Daniel Kayser, François Lévy. Challenging the principle of compositionality in interpreting natural language texts. conference on Compositionality, Concepts and Cognition, 2004, Düsseldorf, Germany. ⟨hal-00092218⟩