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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"compositional semantics"”.
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Constraint handling rules. Compositional semantics and program transformation
… Constraint Handling Rules (CHR). It proposes a compositional semantics and a technique for program transformation. CHR is a concurrent committed-choice constraint logic programming language consisting of guarded rules, which transform multi-sets of atomic formulas (constraints) into simpler ones …
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Machine learning methods for vector-based compositional semantics
… approaches, based on the principle of compositionality. The first half of the thesis will be dedicated to categorial compositional models, which are based on the observation that certain types of grammars share the structure of the algebra of vector spaces. This leads to an approach …
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Interpreting questions under attitudes
… of variability that pose challenges for the compositional semantics of question-embedding sentences: (i) lexical variation among clause-embedding predicates with respect to the selection of complement types, (ii) variability in the exhaustivity of embedded questions and (iii) variability in …
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A modifier-based philosophy of whole number
… to provide number-words with the necessary compositional semantics. This leaves only modifiers as plausible candidates to play number-words' role in natural language. After the semantic-type modifier is chosen, a decision between number-words' being adjectival or adverbial modifiers must …
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Categorical models of second-order abstract syntax
… as type-preserving simultaneous substitution and compositional semantics via initial algebras. However, their practical impact on formal verification has been limited, due to their categorical sophistication and the challenges of encoding them in dependently-typed settings. This thesis bridges …
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Movement out of focus
… not only due to independent differences in their compositional semantics: only uses focus alternatives to compute new truth conditions, whereas even uses the alternatives to introduce a presupposition without modifying the truth conditions. I furthermore argue that neither syntactic reconstruction …
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Part of speech N-grams for information retrieval
… of each other, and as such ignore the compositional semantics of language. This assumption however is not entirely true, and can cause several problems, such as ambiguity in understanding textual information, misinterpreting or falsifying the original informative intent, and limiting …
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Game comonads and beyond: compositional constructions for logic and algorithms
… parameters such as treewidth and treedepth. The compositional framework for logical resources emerging from these comonads has proved an important tool in generalising results from finite model theory and new game comonads have been invented for a range of different logics and algorithms. …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
… represent modal auxiliaries. The notion of event semantics (Davidson 1967) plays an important role in the formulation of the compositional semantics due to the way in which event times are related to aspectual meaning. The grammar uses a Neo-Davidsonian approach (Parsons 1990) to representing the …