Tag Archives: Syntax

Meaning-Text Theory

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Linas Vepstas

During some recent reading, it struck me that a useful framework for thinking about and talking about sentence generation is the MTT or “meaning-text theory” of Igor Mel’cuk, et al Here is one readable reference:

Igor A. Mel’čuk and …

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Semantic dependency relations

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Linas Vepstas

I spent the weekend comparing the Stanford parser to RelEx, and learned a lot. RelEx really does deserve to be called a “semantic relation extractor”, and not just a “dependency relation extractor”. It provides a more abstract, …

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Determining word senses from grammatical usage

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Linas Vepstas

I’ve recently been tinkering with a mechanism for determining word senses based on their grammatical usage.  This has me pretty excited, because, so far, it seems to be reasonably accurate (i.e. not terrible), and lightning-fast.  I’m doing this by …

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