Re: SUO: Re: Enhancing Data Interoperability with Ontologies...
I know reality is something that is unpleasant but:
> CLCE already handles pronouns.
>
>> ... Do you think this paper is comprehensive
>> enough, and the area solid enough, to produce
>> a CLCE that can handle pronouns?
>
> But they're called variables.
But pullease. "... already handles..." makes it sound
like a solved problem. For single sentences, yes,
you can regard pronouns as variables. But the only
real interest is then in *resolving* pronouns
in text: i.e., working out what the variables
refer to. That is not "handled" by any system, although
with a good mixture of linguistic constraints and
statistical measures and hierachies of thematic
relations and a tracking of discourse focus via
centering and other similar notions you can
get up to around 90% in "well-behaved" texts.
> You can use these pronouns by themselves as "X"
> or you can use them as part of a referential noun
> phrase, such as "the cat X". See the CLCE spec's.
These are then not pronouns; they are proper names
and do not have to be tracked according to
discourse context. Which makes them trivial: which
is good for CLCE but has little to do with
"handling" pronouns.
> And thanks for the reference to Kamp and Reyle. Maybe
> I can find a tutorial on the web.
The book is a tutorial, more or less. It is a basic
introduction for students. There is also a lengthy
encyclopedia entry on Hans Kamps' website. But there
are also very many intros and no doubt on the web
something basic.
Sorry, but these posting strayed into linguistics again.
John B.