Paper

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

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Abstract

Combinatory Categorial Grammar\'s (CCG; Steedman, 2000) flexible

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treatment of word order and constituency enable it to employ a compact

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lexicon, an important factor in its successful application to a range

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of NLP problems. However, its word order flexibility can be

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problematic for linguistic phenomena where linear order plays a key

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role. In this paper, we show that the enhanced control over

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evaluation order afforded by Continuized CCG (Barker & Shan, 2014)

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makes it possible to not only implement an improved analysis of

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negative polarity items in Dynamic Continuized CCG (White et al.,

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2017) but also to develop an accurate treatment of balanced

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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