Abstract
This paper addresses issues related to employing logic-based semantic composition as a meaning representation for Arabic within a unification-based syntax-semantics interface. Since semantic representation has to be compositional on the level of semantic processing λ-calculus based on Discourse Representation Theory can be utilized as a helpful and practical technique for the semantic construction of ARABIC in Arabic understanding systems. As ARABIC computational linguistics is also short of feature-based compositional syntax-semantics interfaces we hope that this approach might be a further motivation to redirect research to modern semantic construction techniques for developing an adequate model of semantic processing for Arabic and even no existing formal theory is capable to provide a complete and consistent account of all phenomena involved in Arabic semantic processing.- Anthology ID:
- 2003.mtsummit-semit.8
- Volume:
- Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic languages: issues and approaches
- Month:
- September 23-27
- Year:
- 2003
- Address:
- New Orleans, USA
- Venue:
- MTSummit
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Note:
- Pages:
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2003.mtsummit-semit.8
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Bassam Haddad and Mustafa Yaseen. 2003. Towards semantic composition of Arabic: a λ-DRT based approach. In Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic languages: issues and approaches, New Orleans, USA.
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards semantic composition of Arabic: a λ-DRT based approach (Haddad & Yaseen, MTSummit 2003)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2003.mtsummit-semit.8.pdf