Underspecified Beta Reduction

Manuel Bodirsky (1) , Katrin Erk (1) , Alexander Koller (2) , Joachim Niehren (1)

1 Programming Systems Lab [Saarland]
2 Allgemeine Linguistik - Allgemeine Linguistik Computational Linguistics and phonetics

For ambiguous sentences, traditional semantics construction produces large numbers of higher-order formulas, which must then be beta-reduced individually. Underspecified versions can produce compact descriptions of all readings, but it is not known how to perform beta reduction on these descriptions. We show how to do this using beta reduction constraints in the constraint language for lambda-structures (CLLS).

Domaines: Logique en informatique [cs.LO]; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Manuel Bodirsky, Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren. Underspecified Beta Reduction. 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2001, Toulouse, France. pp.74-81. ⟨inria-00536805⟩