Feature-Based & Model-Based Semantics for English, French and German Verb Phrases

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1、Feature-Based&odel-BasedSemanticsforEnglish,FrenchandGermanVerbhrasesStuartenteremyittDepartmentofComputingDepartmentofComputingUniversityofBrighton
mperialCollegeSussex,Uondon,UEmail:S..H.ent@bton.ac.ukEmail:jvp@doc.ic.ac.ukAbstractThispaperconsiderstherelat

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3、putationallinguisticsforrepresentingcomplexsyntacticstructures.Thepapershowshowasimpleintuitivesemanticsofverbphrasesmaybeencodedasafeaturesystem,andhowthiscanbeusedtosupportmodularconstructionofau-tomatictranslationsystemsthroughfeaturelook-uptables.Thisisillustratedb

4、yautomatedtranslationofEnglishintoeitherFrenchorGerman.Thepapercontin-uestoformalisethefeature-basedapproachviaamodel-based,ontaguesemantics,whichextendspreviousworkonthesemanticsofEnglishverbphrases.
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7、avealsobeenusedincompilingforrepresentingso-called`staticsemantics'ofprograms.WedescribehowasetoffeaturescanbeusedtorepresentthesemanticsofEnglishverbphrases,asdenotedbytheir(syntactic)tenseandaspectmarkers.ThisiscontrastedwithhowdistinctionsofmeaningareconveyedinFrenc

8、handGermanverbphrases.Wethenshowhowtransla-tionbetweenEnglish/FrenchandEnglish/Germancanbeimplementedbyasimpletablelo