Unificational combinatory categorial grammar

Abstract

In this paper we present a grammar formalism that combines the insights from Combinatory Categorial Grammar with feature structure unification. We show how information structure can be incorporated with syntactic and semantic representations in a principled way. We focus on the way theme, rheme, and focus are integrated in the compositional semantics, using Discourse Representation Theory as first-order semantic theory. UCCG can be used for parsing and generating prosodically annotated text, and therefore has the potential to advance spoken dialogue systems.

From Sentences to Scope Relations and Backward

“…There are only a few works pertaining to deep parsing of scope order and referentiality in connection with word order and intonation. An (excellent) example is shown by Traat and Bos [16], but we are the first to attempt to build a similar system for Hungarian (whose relevant and advantageous properties are discussed in Sec. 2).…”