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We present an ontology-based semantic interpreter that can be linked to a grammar through grammar rule constraints, providing access to meaning during parsing and generation. In this approach, the parser will take as input natural language utterances and will produce ontology-based semantic representations. We rely on a recently developed constraint-based grammar formalism, which balances expressiveness with practical learnability results. We show that even with a weak “ontological model”, the semantic interpreter at the grammar rule level can help remove erroneous parses obtained when we do not have access to meaning.
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Muresan, S. (2010). Ontology-Based Semantic Interpretation as Grammar Rule Constraints . In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12116-6_12
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