TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa học: "IN THE QUANTIFIER SCOPING SRI CORE LANGUAGE "

An algorithm for generating the possible quantifier scopings for a sentence, in order of preference, is outlined. The scoping assigned to a quantifier is determined by its interactions with other quantifiers, modals, negation, and certain syntacticconstituent boundaries. When a potential scoping is logically equivalent to another, the less preferred one is discarded. The relative scoping preferences of the individual quantifiers are not embedded in the algorithm, but are specified by a set of rules. Many of the rules presented here have appeared in the linguistics literature and have been used in various natural language processing systems. . | QUANTIFIER SCOPING IN THE SRI CORE LANGUAGE ENGINE Douglas B. Moran Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park California 94025 USA ABSTRACT An algorithm for generating the possible quantifier scopings for a sentence in order of preference is outlined. The scoping assigned to a quantifier is determined by its interactions with other quantifiers modals negation and certain syntacticconstituent boundaries. When a potential scoping is logically equivalent to another the less preferred one is discarded. The relative scoping preferences of the individual quantifiers are not embedded in the algorithm but are specified by a set of rules. Many of the rules presented here have appeared in the linguistics literature and have been used in various natural language processing systems. However the coordination of these rules and the resulting coverage represents a significant contribution. Because experimental data on human quantifier-scoping preferences are still fragmentary we chose to design a system in which the set of preference rules could be easily modified and expanded. The algorithm described has been implemented in Prolog as part of a larger natural language processing system. Extensions of this algorithm are in progress. INTRODUCTION One of the major sources of ambiguity in sentences results from the different scopes that can be assigned to the various quantified noun phrases in the sentence. Part of the problem in determining the preferred scopings of quantifiers is the number of factors involved. For example consider these three sentences John visited every house on a street. 1 John visited every house on a square. 2 John visited every patient in a private room. 3 Each of these sentences has two quantifier scopings in one every has wider scope over a and while in the other a has the wider scope. However the readings that most people obtain for these sentences are quite different. In 1 the reading in which a has wider scope is .

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