#24763Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings forlexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
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well with the unordered nature of
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information
</term>
in the
<term>
functional structure
</term>
#24881In contrast to compositional approaches, we present a deductive approach to assembling meanings, based on reasoning with constraints, which meshes well with the unordered nature ofinformation in the functional structure.
other,20-1-E93-1013,ak
<term>
rules
</term>
for determining the
<term>
meaning
</term>
of larger units given the
<term>
meanings
#24770Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining themeaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
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composition
</term>
. More recently , the
<term>
functional structure
</term>
of
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LFG
</term>
has been used to
#24808More recently, thefunctional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
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</term>
has been used to provide the
<term>
syntactic information
</term>
necessary for constraining
<term>
derivations
#24818More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide thesyntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
tech,17-5-E93-1013,ak
assembling
<term>
meanings
</term>
, based on
<term>
reasoning with constraints
</term>
, which meshes well with the unordered
#24869In contrast to compositional approaches, we present a deductive approach to assembling meanings, based onreasoning with constraints, which meshes well with the unordered nature of information in the functional structure.
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requirements of
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completeness
</term>
and
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coherence
</term>
. We describe a
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computational
#24918Our use of linear logic as a 'glue' for assembling meanings also allows for a coherent treatment of modification as well as of the LFG requirements of completeness andcoherence.
tech,16-1-E93-1013,ak
</term>
for
<term>
lexical items
</term>
and
<term>
rules
</term>
for determining the
<term>
meaning
</term>
#24766Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items andrules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.