Quantifier Scope in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
(Queen Mary University of London)

In previous work with J. Hedges, we formalised a generalised quantifiers theory of natural language in categorical compositional distributional semantics with the help of bialgebras. In this paper, we show how quantifier scope ambiguity can be represented in that setting and how this representation can be generalised to branching quantifiers.

In Dimitrios Kartsaklis, Martha Lewis and Laura Rimell: Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science (SLPCS 2016), Glasgow, Scotland, 11th June 2016, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 221, pp. 49–57.
Published: 2nd August 2016.
ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.221.6 bibtex PDF
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