Assigning semantic roles to the constituents of a natural language sentence is an important first step in translating natural language into a logical form for further processing. I present a statistical classifier which can perform this task using minimal syntactic cues. I use the syntactic and the semantic head of each constituent as the only features and present simple rules for extracting th...

We present a proposal for the structure of noun phrases in Synchronous TreeAdjoining Grammar (STAG) syntax and semantics that permits an elegant and uniform analysis of a variety of phenomena, including quantifier scope and extraction phenomena such as wh-questions with both moved and in-place wh-words, pied-piping, stranding of prepositions, and topicalization. The tight coupling between synta...