Copestake, A. and A. Lascarides [1997] Integrating Symbolic and Statistical Representations: The Lexicon Pragmatics Interface, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL97), Madrid, July 7th--12th 1997, pp136--143.
We describe a formal framework for interpretation of words and compounds in a discourse context which integrates a symbolic lexicon/grammar, word-sense probabilities, and a pragmatic component. The approach is motivated by the need to handle productive word use. In this paper, we concentrate on compound nominals. We discuss the inadequacies of approaches which consider compound interpretation as either wholly lexico-grammatical or wholly pragmatic, and provide an alternative integrated account.
@inproceedings{copestake:lascarides:1997,
author = {Ann Copestake and Alex Lascarides},
year = {1997},
title = {Integrating Symbolic and Statistical Representations: The
Lexicon Pragmatics Interface},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics and the 8th Meeting of
the European Chapter for the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL97/EACL97)},
pages = {136--143},
address = {Madrid}
}