Marie Duzí

‘Parmenides principle’ (The analysis of aboutness)

A explication of aboutness (principle of subject matter) within transparent intensional logic.

Verb Valency Semantic Representation for Deep Linguistic Processing

In the paper, we describe methods for exploitation of a new lexical database of valency frames (VerbaLex) in relation to Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL). We present a detailed description of the Complex Valency Frames (CVF) as they appear in VerbaLex including basic ontology of the VerbaLex semantic roles. TIL is a typed logical system developed for natural language semantic representation using TIL logical forms known as constructions. TIL is well suited to handle the difficult language phenomena such as temporal relations, intensionality and propositional attitudes. Here we make use of the long-term development of the Normal Translation Algorithm aimed at automatic translation of natural language sentences into TIL constructions. We examine the relations between CVFs and TIL constructions of predicate-argument structures and discuss the procedure of automatic acquisition of the verbal object constructions. The exploitation of CVFs in the syntactic parsing is also briefly mentioned.