Selectional Restrictions, Types and Categories

Nicholas Asher (1, 2)

1 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

The expressions of a language distinguish between many different types of objects. These types can affect how the meanings of these expressions combine. This paper provides a formal picture of the process of meaning combination in a richly typed framework.

Mots clés: Lexical Semantics; Compositional Semantics; Type Theory

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Apprentissage [cs.LG]; Logique en informatique [cs.LO]; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Nicholas Asher. Selectional Restrictions, Types and Categories. Journal of Applied Logic, 2014, vol. 12 (n° 1), pp. 75-87. ⟨10.1016/j.jal.2013.08.002⟩. ⟨hal-01123735⟩