This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena.
Pronominal resumption is the realization of the base of a syntactic dependency as a bound …

The aim of computational semantics is to capture the meaning of natural language
expressions in representations suitable for performing inferences, in the service of …

This paper discusses computational compositional semantics from the perspective of
grammar engineering, in the light of experience with the use of Minimal Recursion …

Presenting natural language-understanding (NLU) results can include redundancies and
awkward sentence structures. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method …

In some natural language understanding (NLU) applications, results may not be tailored to
the user's query. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method includes tagging …

This paper discusses the construction of a parallel treebank currently involving ten
languages from six language families. The treebank is based on deep LFG (Lexical …

In this paper I discuss weaknesses in the traditional LFG account of complex predicates and
in the XLE implementation of the same. I argue that the concept of predicate composition in …

In this paper, we report on the role of the Urdu grammar in the Parallel Grammar (ParGram)
project (Butt, M., King, TH, Niño, M.-E., & Segond, F.(1999). A grammar writer's cookbook …

This paper describes our system as used in the RTE3 task. The system maps premise and
hypothesis pairs into an abstract knowledge representation (AKR) and then performs …

In this paper we survey the various ways of expressing modality in Urdu/Hindi and show that
Urdu/Hindi modals provide interesting insights on current discussions of the semantics of …