Fibred semantics for feature-based grammar logic (Q1923842)

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Fibred semantics for feature-based grammar logic
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    Fibred semantics for feature-based grammar logic (English)
    This paper gives a simple method for providing categorial brands of feature-based unification grammars with a model-theoretic semantics. The key idea is to apply the paradigm of fibred semantics (or layered logics) in order to combine the two components of a feature-based grammar logic. We demonstrate the method for the augmentation of Lambek categorial grammar with Kasper/Rounds-style feature logic. These are combined by replacing (or annotating) atomic formulas of the first logic, i.e. the basic syntactic types, by formulas of the second. Modelling such a combined logic is less trivial than one might expect. The direct application of the fibred semantics method where a combined atomic formula like \texttt{np(num:sg \& pers:3rd)} denotes those strings which have the indicated property and the categorial operators denote the usual left- and right-residuals of these string sets, does not match the intuitive, unification-based proof theory. Unification implements a global bookkeeping with respect to a proof whereas the direct fibring method restricts its view to the atoms of the grammar logic. The solution is to interpret the (embedded) feature terms as global feature constraints while maintaining the same kind of fibred structures. For this adjusted semantics, the anticipated proof system is sound and complete.
    computational linguistics
    unification
    combined logic
    feature-based unification grammars
    model-theoretic semantics
    fibred semantics
    layered logics
    Lambek categorial grammar
    Kasper/Rounds-style feature logic
    proof system

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