Type Theories and Lexical Networks: using Serious Games as the basis for Multi-Sorted Typed Systems

Journal of Language Modelling

Manel Zarrouk¹  Lionel Ramadier²  Stergios Chatzikyriakidis³  Mathieu Lafourcade⁴ 

[1] National University of Ireland,Galway;RadiologyDept.CHU Montpellier;University of Gothenburg;UniversityofMontpellier;

关键词: Lexical Networks;    JeuxdeMots;    Type Theory;    Type Ontologies;    Formal Semantics;    Natural Language Inference;   

DOI  :  10.15398/jlm.v5i2.145

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we show how a rich lexico-semantic network which has been built using serious games, JeuxDeMots, can help us in grounding our semantic ontologies as well as different sorts of information in doing formal semantics using rich or modern type theories (type theories within the tradition of Martin Löf). We discuss the domain of base types, adjectival and verbal types, hyperonymy/hyponymy relations as well as more advanced issues like homophony and polysemy. We show how one can take advantage of this wealth in a formal compositional semantics framework. This is a way to sidestep the problem of deciding how your type ontology should look like once you have made a move to a many sorted type system. Furthermore, we show how this kind of information can be extracted  from JeuxdeMots and inserted into a proof-assistant like Coq in order to perform reasoning tasks using modern type theoretic semantics.

【 授权许可】

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