Reaping the Benefits of Interactive Syntax and Semantics
<|reference_start|>Reaping the Benefits of Interactive Syntax and Semantics: Semantic feedback is an important source of information that a parser could use to deal with local ambiguities in syntax. However, it is difficult to devise a systematic communication mechanism for interactive syntax and semantics. In this article, I propose a variant of left-corner parsing to define the points at which syntax and semantics should interact, an account of grammatical relations and thematic roles to define the content of the communication, and a conflict resolution strategy based on independent preferences from syntax and semantics. The resulting interactive model has been implemented in a program called COMPERE and shown to account for a wide variety of psycholinguistic data on structural and lexical ambiguities.<|reference_end|>
@article{mahesh1994reaping,
    title={Reaping the Benefits of Interactive Syntax and Semantics},
    author={Kavi Mahesh (Georgia Institute of Technology)},
    journal={appeared in ACL-94 Proceedings},
    year={1994},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9408017},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}