On the semantics of determiners in a rich type-theoretical framework (Sémantique des déterminants dans un cadre richement typé) [in French]

On the semantics of determiners in a rich type-theoretical framework The variation of word meaning according to the context led us to enrich the type system of our syntactical and semantic analyser of French based on categorial grammars and Montague semantics (or lambda-DRT). The main advantage of a deep semantic analyse is too represent meaning by logical formulae that can be easily used e.g. for inferences. Determiners and quantifiers play a fundamental role in the construction of those formulae and we needed to provide them with semantic terms adapted to this new framework. We propose a solution inspired by the tau and epsilon operators of Hilbert, generic elements that resemble choice functions. This approach unifies the treatment of the different determiners and quantifiers and allows a dynamic binding of pronouns. Above all, this fully computational view of determiners fits in well within the wide coverage parser Grail, both from a theoretical and a practical viewpoint. MOTS-CLÉS : Analyse sémantique automatique, Sémantique formelle, Compositionnalité.