Abstract:
In this paper, the syntax and semantics for a fragment of English is provided within the framework of Martin-Lof's type theory. The first to explore the potential benefit...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
In this paper, the syntax and semantics for a fragment of English is provided within the framework of Martin-Lof's type theory. The first to explore the potential benefits of this application was Aarne Ranta (1991). The motivation for the present work is to develop more traditional approach (Montague-style semantics) to semantics based upon the constructive framework. The work is focused on the parsing problem, which consists of providing the interpretation of a given English sentence as an expression in the type theory. In this paper it is shown that the parsing and semantic interpretation of a sentence can be accomplished in a compositional fashion by defining semantic rules that work in a one-to-one correspondence with the syntactic ones.
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, 2003. ENC 2003.
Date of Conference: 12-12 September 2003
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 23 September 2003
Print ISBN:0-7695-1915-6