Maxime Amblard

Event in compositional dynamic semantics

We present a framework which constructs an event-style discourse semantics. The discourse dynamics are encoded in continuation semantics and various rhetorical relations are embedded in the resulting interpretation of the framework. We assume discourse and sentence are distinct semantic objects, that play different roles in meaning evaluation. Moreover, two sets of composition functions, for handling different discourse relations, are introduced. The paper first gives the necessary background and motivation for event and dynamic semantics, then the framework with detailed examples will be introduced.

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. Celebrating 20 Years of LACL (1996–2016)

Edited under the auspices of the Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th anniversary of the International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LACL 2016, held in LORIA Nancy, France, in December 2016. The 19 contributed papers, presented together with 4 invited papers and 6 abstracts, were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The focus of the conference is the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic, and model theoretic methods for describing and formalising natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics as well as the implementation of the corresponding tools.

Encoding phases using commutativity and non-commutativity in a logical framework

This article presents an extension of Minimalist Categorial Grammars (MCG) to encode Chomskys phases. These grammars are based on Partially Commutative Logic (PCL) and encode properties of Minimalist Grammars (MG) of Stabler [22]. The first implementation of MCG were using both noncommutative properties (to respect the linear word order in an utterance) and commutative ones (to model features of different constituents). Here, we propose to augment Chomskys phases with the non-commutative tensor product of the logic. Then we can give account of the PIC [7] just with logical properties of the framework instead of defining a specific rule.