Incremental interpretation using a tree description language
We outline some techniques for incremental, left-to-right semantically-based
parsing which involve construction of partial specifications of binary trees in
a modal tree description language LOFT, allowing for resolution of local
ambiguity on the basis of contextual knowledge. The leaf nodes are decorated
with pairs of type-logical formulas and lambda- expressions, with the logical
form derived by successive function application on pairs of sister nodes. This
is applied to examples of adjunct attachment and `garden-pathing' involving
argument re-analysis, bringing out a connection between these phenomena.
Rodger Kibble, Lutz Marten and Wilfried Meyer Viol