...Project
Research reported in this paper was supported in part by Contract MDA904-92-C-5189 from the U.S. Department of Defense.
...University,
Please see the CRL WWW home page for a more complete overview of the uK Project at http://crl.nmsu.edu/index.html
...style.
For example, see (Viegas and Nirenburg 1995) for a treatment of verbal ellipsis.
...verb:
An LFG-like syntactic description is used.
...used.
Except possibly in failure recovery, described below.
...sentence
along with information added by other microtheories
...ontology.
The next section describes how the analyzer retrieves and applies constraints from the ontology
...event,
For example, a South-American Indian language has a single word for ``she carries water down to the river'', but our ontology sadly cannot map directly into such an event.
...languages.
For example, one word for a human drinking, another word for animals drinking.
...NMSU.
We would prefer to interleave semantics in the syntactic analysis process. Currently, we are investigating ways to modify the Pangloss-uK interface to provide a level of interleaving, especially with regards to PP attachments.
...meanings.
Again, this limitation will be removed shortly. Choosing between attachments will proceed in the same constraint-satisfaction paradigm as described for word senses, with some possible inputs from attachment microtheories such as ``minimal attachment'', etc..
...currently
It is clear that ORGANIZATION as AGENT or THEME should select different types of EVENTS than, say, HUMAN. As the uK ontology is refined, such knowledge will be added.
...HUMAN.
Please see the discussion of metonymy in the next section to understand how ORGANIZATION (grupo-roche's meaning) can meet a HUMAN constraint.
...``compania,''
The lexicon entries for ``a-traves-de'' needs to be consulted to determine these facts.
...EVENT)
Which asks ``Is ACQUIRE an EVENT?''
...cannot.
It is these type 2 constraints that the ontology needs updating the most.
...information
Statistical information is usually relegated to the role of optimization only, as described below.
...problems,
Microtheories of coreference, ellipsis, metaphor, time and aspect will be developed, among others.
...expected
``Expect'' meaning here that it is a slot explicitly defined for the concept.

Kavi Mahesh
Sun Nov 12 15:24:36 MST 1995