Valentin D. Richard


2023

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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary
Valentin D. Richard | Floris Roelofsen
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary

2022

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Simulating Feature Structures with Simple Types
Valentin D. Richard
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop

Feature structures have been several times considered to enrich categorial grammars in order to build fine-grained grammars. Most attempts to unify both frameworks either model categorial types as feature structures or add feature structures on top of categorial types. We pursue a different approach: using feature structure as categorial atomic types. In this article, we present a procedure to create, from a simplified HPSG grammar, an equivalent abstract categorial grammar (ACG). We represent a feature structure by the enumeration of its totally well-typed upper bounds, so that unification can be simulated as intersection. We implement this idea as a meta-ACG preprocessor.

2021

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Embedding Intentional Semantic into Inquisitive Semantics
Philippe de Groote | Valentin D. Richard
Proceedings of the 17th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language