SFB 471: Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon
Project A22: Lexical semantic specification via Discourse Relations |
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5109 (work) E-mail: miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de Alexandros Tantos (Now at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Contact
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General Information |
The project A22 was sponsored by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of the of Sonderforschungsbereich 471. The project ran from April 2004 to December 2008. |
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Goals |
The project focused on the exploration of the possible links between lexical and discourse levels of representation. We explored SDRT (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory) [Asher (1993), Asher and Lascarides (2003)], which strives to combine semantic and pragmatic principles in a formal way. It has been argued (Asher and Lascarides, 1995) that lexical semantic representation should include information that interacts with the discourse level in a two-way interchange:
We therefore explored:
In terms of data, the project
studied the lexical representation and discourse properties of psych
verbs, manner of motion verbs, light verbs like English have and the
related get constructions in comparison with the German kriegen
(get) passive.
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Publications |
Tantos, A. 2003. Specifying the Information Flow between Lexical and Discourse meaning: The case of Psych-verbs. MSc Dissertation. Tantos
A. 2003. Rhetorical
relations in Verbal Eventual Representations? Evidence from Psych Verbs. In
Proceedings of TLS 8 (Texas
Linguistic Society) Butt
M. and A. Tantos. 2004. Lexical semantics via Petri Nets. Tantos A. 2004. The light verb `have' as a Discourse Active Element. In Proceedings of International Workshop of Computational Semantics 6 (IWCS6) - Tilburg Tantos A. 2004.
The interface
between lexical and discourse semantics. The
case of the light verb `have'.In Proceedings of
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004
(CLIN2004) - Leiden Tantos A. 2005.
Lexical Contribution to Discourse Interface and
Interpretation - The Case of Object-Experiencer Modern Greek Psych
Verbs. In Proceedings of
Constraints in Discourse - Dortmund Tantos
A. 2005.
The Lexical Semantics of Greek Psych Verbs from a
Discourse Perspective. In Proceedings of
The Third International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics -
Athens
Butt M., A. Tantos and
C. Gohl. 2005.
Light
have and the Lexicon-Discourse Interface. Handout
presented in LAGB05.
Tantos A. 2006.
The Lexicon-Discourse Interface: Light
have. In Proceedings of Constraints in Discourse. -
Maynooth (Ireland)
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Related Literature |
Asher, N. 1993. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Asher, N. and A. Lascarides 1995. Lexical Disambiguation in a Discourse Context. Journal of Semantics 12:69-108. Asher, N. and A. Lascarides 2003. Logics of Conversation. Cambridge University Press. Asher, N. and M. Morreau 1991. Commonsense Entailment. In J. Mylopoulos and R. Reiter (eds.) Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 387-392. Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, California. |
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In October 2006 we organized a one-day "Workshop on the Interface between Lexical and Discourse Semantics". The Workshop took place as a satellite event of the 8th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS06). The workshop is open to all attendees of KONVENS06.
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