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This chapter describes the use of verb class memberships expressed as semantic features as a means of capturing generalizations about manner-of-motion verbs in Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars, STAGs, (Shieber and Schabes, 1990; Shieber and Schabes, 1991), which characterize transductions between Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars, LTAG, (Joshi, 1985; Schabes et al., 1988). Our approach allows STAGs, which are essentially transfer-based, to take advantage of the same types of generalizations which are generally thought of as wholly the domain of interlingua systems, without giving up any of the lexical specificity unique to transfer-based systems.
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Palmer, M., Rosenzweig, J., Schuler, W. (1999). Capturing Motion Verb Generalizations in Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars. In: Saint-Dizier, P. (eds) Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2746-4_8
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