Compositional semantics for linguistic formalisms

Shuly Wintner

doi:10.3115/1034678.1034702

Compositional semantics for linguistic formalisms

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In what sense is a grammar the union of its rules? This paper adapts the notion of composition, well developed in the context of programming languages, to the domain of linguistic formalisms. We study alternative definitions for the semantics of such formalisms, suggesting a denotational semantics that we show to be compositional and fully-abstract. This facilitates a clear, mathematically sound way for defining grammar modularity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	96-103
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume	1999-June
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1034678.1034702
State	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes
Event	37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 1999 - College Park, United States Duration: 20 Jun 1999 → 26 Jun 1999

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Computer Science Applications
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics

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Compositional semantics for linguistic formalisms

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