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The syntax-semantics interface: theoretical insights and practical implementations

This course covers both the theoretical foundations of the syntax-semantics interface and its incorporation into current (deep) NLP applications. On Day 1 we will discuss the syntax-semantics interface as a mapping from syntactic to semantic structures. The central issue here is structural ambiguity (one [surface] syntactic structure with several meanings). Day 2 will focus on how the various formalisms implement semantic construction. We will show that the syntax-semantics interface occupies different positions in those formalisms. Day 3 is devoted to metonymy, its integration into syntax-semantics interfaces and its resolution (e.g., by querying lexical or ontological databases or by corpus-based statistics). Days 4 and 5 present implementations of the syntax-semantics interface in current NLP applications. Topics discussed here include the role of the syntax-semantics interface in large-coverage grammars and hybrid processing, shallow semantic parsing for FrameNet, and the syntax-semantics interface in information systems (e.g., QA and IR).