The LIFT 2 research group is happy to announce the three forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics:

2024/09/11 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: Meaghan Fowlie (Utrecht University)
Title: Trees as building instructions
Abstract: Trees are very common linguistic representations, used for instance in rewrite grammars, X-Bar grammars, and lambda expressions. Trees can also be records of the steps by which a structure was built, for instance a derivation tree or a term over an algebra. These building instructions don’t have to build trees, but can build anything you like. This opens the possibility of using well-established and interpretable tree-prediction methods, such as dependency parsing, to predict...