Tree Descriptions, Constraints and Incrementality

Denys Duchier (1) , Claire Gardent (2)

1 Department of Computer Science [Santa Barbara]
2 LANGUE ET DIALOGUE - Human-machine dialogue with a significant language component

In Duchier and Gardent 1999, we presented a constraint-based method for enumerating the models satisfying a given tree description and described its application to the underspecified semantic representation of discourse advocated in Gardent and Webber 1998. In this chapter, we indicate how the approach may be further extended to support discourse level incremental processing.

Mots clés: incremental processing; underspecified representations; tree descriptions; dominance constraints; constraint programming; representations sous-specifiees; descriptions d'arbres; contraintes de dominance; programmation par les contraintes; semantique du discours; discourse semantics; traitement incrementel

Domaines: Autre [cs.OH]

Denys Duchier, Claire Gardent. Tree Descriptions, Constraints and Incrementality. H. Bunt, R. Muskens and E. Thijsse (eds). Computing Meaning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 23 p, 2001, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Series. ⟨inria-00100450⟩