Philippe de Groote


2022

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Quantification Annotation in ISO 24617-12, Second Draft
Harry Bunt | Maxime Amblard | Johan Bos | Karën Fort | Bruno Guillaume | Philippe de Groote | Chuyuan Li | Pierre Ludmann | Michel Musiol | Siyana Pavlova | Guy Perrier | Sylvain Pogodalla
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

This paper describes the continuation of a project that aims at establishing an interoperable annotation schema for quantification phenomena as part of the ISO suite of standards for semantic annotation, known as the Semantic Annotation Framework. After a break, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the project was relaunched in early 2022 with a second working draft of an annotation scheme, which is discussed in this paper. Keywords: semantic annotation, quantification, interoperability, annotation schema, ISO standard

2021

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Embedding Intentional Semantic into Inquisitive Semantics
Philippe de Groote | Valentin D. Richard
Proceedings of the 17th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language

2020

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A French Version of the FraCaS Test Suite
Maxime Amblard | Clément Beysson | Philippe de Groote | Bruno Guillaume | Sylvain Pogodalla
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

This paper presents a French version of the FraCaS test suite. This test suite, originally written in English, contains problems illustrating semantic inference in natural language. We describe linguistic choices we had to make when translating the FraCaS test suite in French, and discuss some of the issues that were raised by the translation. We also report an experiment we ran in order to test both the translation and the logical semantics underlying the problems of the test suite. This provides a way of checking formal semanticists’ hypotheses against actual semantic capacity of speakers (in the present case, French speakers), and allow us to compare the results we obtained with the ones of similar experiments that have been conducted for other languages.

2019

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Proceedings of the 16th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language
Philippe de Groote | Frank Drewes | Gerald Penn
Proceedings of the 16th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language

2017

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Proceedings of the 15th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language
Makoto Kanazawa | Philippe de Groote | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Proceedings of the 15th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language

2016

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Modal Subordination in Type Theoretic Dynamic Logic
Sai Qian | Philippe de Groote | Maxime Amblard
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 14, 2016 - Modality: Logic, Semantics, Annotation, and Machine Learning

Classical theories of discourse semantics, such as Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL), predict that an indefinite noun phrase cannot serve as antecedent for an anaphor if the noun phrase is, but the anaphor is not, in the scope of a modal expression. However, this prediction meets with counterexamples. The phenomenon modal subordination is one of them. In general, modal subordination is concerned with more than two modalities, where the modality in subsequent sentences is interpreted in a context ‘subordinate’ to the one created by the first modal expression. In other words, subsequent sentences are interpreted as being conditional on the scenario introduced in the first sentence. One consequence is that the anaphoric potential of indefinites may extend beyond the standard limits of accessibility constraints. This paper aims to give a formal interpretation on modal subordination. The theoretical backbone of the current work is Type Theoretic Dynamic Logic (TTDL), which is a Montagovian account of discourse semantics. Different from other dynamic theories, TTDL was built on classical mathematical and logical tools, such as λ-calculus and Church’s theory of types. Hence it is completely compositional and does not suffer from the destructive assignment problem. We will review the basic set-up of TTDL and then present Kratzer’s theory on natural language modality. After that, by integrating the notion of conversation background, in particular, the modal base usage, we offer an extension of TTDL (called Modal-TTDL, or M-TTDL in short) which properly deals with anaphora across modality. The formal relation between Modal-TTDL and TTDL will be discussed as well. We uncover the difficulty of specific sense distinctions by investigating distributional bias and reducing the sparsity of existing small-scale corpora used in prior work. We build a semantically enriched model for modal sense classification by designing novel features related to lexical, proposition-level and discourse-level semantic factors. Besides improved classification performance, closer examination of interpretable feature sets unveils relevant semantic and contextual factors in modal sense classification. Finally, we investigate genre effects on modal sense distribution and how they affect classification performance. Our investigations uncover the difficulty of specific sense distinctions and how they are affected by training set size and distributional bias. Our large-scale experiments confirm that semantically enriched models outperform models built on shallow feature sets. Cross-genre experiments shed light on differences in sense distributions across genres and confirm that semantically enriched models have high generalization capacity, especially in unstable distributional settings.

2015

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Abstract Categorial Parsing as Linear Logic Programming
Philippe de Groote
Proceedings of the 14th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language (MoL 2015)

2010

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Presupposition Accommodation as Exception Handling
Philippe de Groote | Ekaterina Lebedeva
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference

2002

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Tree-Adjoining Grammars as Abstract Categorial Grammars
Philippe de Groote
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+6)

2001

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Towards Abstract Categorial Grammars
Philippe de Groote
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics