DisCoCat for Donkey Sentences

Lachlan McPheat
(University College London)
Daphne Wang
(University College London)

We demonstrate how to parse Geach's Donkey sentences in a compositional distributional model of meaning. We build on previous work on the DisCoCat (Distributional Compositional Categorical) framework, including extensions that model discourse, determiners, and relative pronouns. We present a type-logical syntax for parsing donkey sentences, for which we define both relational and vector space semantics.

In Michael Moortgat and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh: Proceedings Modalities in substructural logics: Applications at the interfaces of logic, language and computation (AMSLO 2023), Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 7-8, 2023, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 381, pp. 32–45.
Published: 7th August 2023.

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