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meeting of the association for computational linguistics | 2001

Extending Lambek Grammars: a Logical Account of Minimalist Grammars

Alain Lecomte; Christian Retoré

We provide a logical definition of Minimalist grammars, that are Stablers formalization of Chomskys minimalist program. Our logical definition leads to a neat relation to categorial grammar, (yielding a treatment of Montague semantics), a parsing-as-deduction in a resource sensitive logic, and a learning algorithm from structured data (based on a typing-algorithm and type-unification). Here we emphasize the connection to Montague semantics which can be viewed as a formal computation of the logical form.


logical aspects of computational linguistics | 1996

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics: An Introduction

Patrick Blackburn; Marc Dymetman; Alain Lecomte; Aarne Ranta; Christian Retoré; Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie

The papers in this collection are all devoted to single theme: logic and its applications in computational linguistics. They share many themes, goals and techniques, and any editorial classification is bound to highlight some connections at the expense of other. Nonetheless, we have found it useful to divide these papers (somewhat arbitrarily) into the following four categories: logical semantics of natural language, grammar and logic, mathematics with linguistic motivations, and computational perspectives. In this introduction, we use this four-way classification as a guide to the papers, and, more generally, to the research agenda that underlies them. We hope that the reader will find it a useful starting point to the collection.


logical aspects of computational linguistics | 2005

On expressing vague quantification and scalar implicatures in the logic of partial information

Areski Nait Abdallah; Alain Lecomte

In this paper, we use the logic of partial information to re-examine some early analyses of vague quantifiers in French such as quelques,peu,beaucoup that are found in particular in the work of O. Ducrot [2]. Our approach is based on the paradigm offered by the logical formalization of the sorites paradox. We claim that this paradox offers a general scheme along which the argumentation structure of all vague quantifiers in French may be expressed. We offer a variational principle approximating Grices maxims in the case of vague quantification.


Archive | 1999

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics

Alain Lecomte; François Lamarche; Guy Perrier

Invited papers.- Type Grammar Revisited.- Optimal Parameters.- Selected papers.- Strong Equivalence of Generalized Ajdukiewicz and Lambek Grammars.- Linguistic, Philosophical, and Pragmatic Aspects of Type-Directed Natural Language Parsing.- Derivational and Representational Views of Minimalist Transformational Grammar.- The MSO Logic-Automaton Connection in Linguistics.- The Logic of Tune A Proof-Theoretic Analysis of Intonation.- A Linear Logic Treatment of Phrase Structure Grammars For Unbounded Dependencies.- Underspecification in Type-Logical Grammars.- On Fibring Feature Logics with Concatenation Logics.- An Operational Model for Parsing De.nite Clause Grammars with In.nite Terms.- Mathematical Vernacular and Conceptual Well-Formedness in Mathematical Language.


Research on Language and Computation | 2004

Rebuilding MP on a Logical Ground

Alain Lecomte


logical aspects of computational linguistics | 1998

Categorial Minimalism

Alain Lecomte


Mathématiques et sciences humaines. Mathematics and social sciences | 2010

Pour une étude du langage via l’interaction : dialogues et sémantique en Ludique

Alain Lecomte; Myriam Quatrini


Linguistic Analysis | 2010

Categorial Minimalist Grammar: From Generative Syntax To Logical Form

Maxime Amblard; Alain Lecomte; Christian Retoré


Prospect and advance in the syntax/semantic interface | 2004

Syntax and Semantics interacting in a Minimalist theory

Maxime Amblard; Alain Lecomte; Christian Retoré


Archive | 1997

Logique des ressources et reseaux syntaxiques

Christian Retoré; Alain Lecomte

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Bruno Mery

University of Bordeaux

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Christian Retoré

French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation

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Aarne Ranta

Chalmers University of Technology

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