Computational Semantics Tools for Glue Semantics

Mark-Matthias Zymla, Mary Dalrymple, Agnieszka Patejuk


Abstract
This paper introduces a suite of computational semantic tools for Glue Semantics, an approach to compositionality developed in the context of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), but applicable to a variety of syntactic representations, including Universal Dependencies (UD). The three tools are: 1) a Glue Semantics prover, 2) an interface between this prover and a platform for implementing LFG grammars, and 3) a system to rewrite and add semantic annotations to LFG and UD syntactic analyses, with a native support for the prover. The main use of these tools is computational verification of theoretical linguistic analyses, but they have also been used for teaching formal semantic concepts.
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2025.iwcs-1.19
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Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics
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September
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2025
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Düsseldorf, Germany
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Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Sylvain Pogodalla
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199–217
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Mark-Matthias Zymla, Mary Dalrymple, and Agnieszka Patejuk. 2025. Computational Semantics Tools for Glue Semantics. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics, pages 199–217, Düsseldorf, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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