Extended Dependency Structures and their Formal Interpretation
<|reference_start|>Extended Dependency Structures and their Formal Interpretation: We describe two ``semantically-oriented'' dependency-structure formalisms, U-forms and S-forms. U-forms have been previously used in machine translation as interlingual representations, but without being provided with a formal interpretation. S-forms, which we introduce in this paper, are a scoped version of U-forms, and we define a compositional semantics mechanism for them. Two types of semantic composition are basic: complement incorporation and modifier incorporation. Binding of variables is done at the time of incorporation, permitting much flexibility in composition order and a simple account of the semantic effects of permuting several incorporations.<|reference_end|>
@article{dymetman1996extended,
    title={Extended Dependency Structures and their Formal Interpretation},
    author={Marc Dymetman and Max Copperman (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9604021},
    year={1996},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9604021},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}