<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for managing syntactic and semantic ambiguity. <P>SOLUTION: This method for managing syntactic and semantic ambiguity can make two different kinds of processing and representation of ambiguity to work together. This techniques allow a linear logic semantic assembly to work with a packed functional (f) structure and provide for contexted version of linear logic in which a semantic contribution can be read from the packed functional (f) structure and pre-pended with the contents of the functional (f) structure to which they pertain. The linear logic reasoning can be executed in the contexted linear logic to derive a possible meaning from the contexted contribution from the packed functional (f) structure. Deductions in the contexted linear logic do not require fully expanding each syntactic parse. A technique applying skeleton/modifier techniques to a contexted reasoning is provided by generating a contexted modifier applicable only for a specific syntactic reading manner. Such a technique recognizes both quantifier scope ambiguity and attachment ambiguity in a representation that uses an efficient skeleton/modifier representation where possible and a contexted representation otherwise. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI 
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY ASSEMBLING AMBIGUOUS MEANING