A Compositional Typed Semantics for Universal Dependencies

arXiv:2403.01187v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Languages may encode similar meanings using different sentence structures. This makes it a challenge to provide a single set of formal rules that can derive meanings from sentences in many languages at once. To overcome the challenge, we can take advantage of language-general connections between meaning and syntax, and build on cross-linguistically parallel syntactic structures. We introduce UD Type Calculus, a compositional, principled, and language-independent system of semantic types and logical forms for lexical items …

abstract arxiv challenge cs.cl dependencies encode general language languages meaning rules semantics set syntax type universal