Paper

Evaluation Order Effects in Dynamic Continuized CCG: From Negative Polarity Items to Balanced Punctuation

---

Abstract

Combinatory Categorial Grammar's (CCG; Steedman, 2000) flexible treatment of word order and constituency enable it to employ a compact lexicon, an important factor in its successful application to a range of NLP problems. However, its word order flexibility can be problematic for linguistic phenomena where linear order plays a key role. In this paper, we show that the enhanced control over evaluation order afforded by Continuized CCG (Barker & Shan, 2014) makes it possible to not only implement an improved analysis of negative polarity items in Dynamic Continuized CCG (White et al., 2017) but also to develop an accurate treatment of balanced punctuation.

Keywords: CCG, punctuation, continuized grammars, negative polarity items

How to Cite:

White, M., (2019) “Evaluation Order Effects in Dynamic Continuized CCG: From Negative Polarity Items to Balanced Punctuation”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 2(1), 226-235. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/kpch-rk05