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Lingvisticæ Investigationes
Vol. 44:1 (2021) ► pp.101–136

Minimodel of semantic synthesis of Russian sentences

| Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal
| Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal

A formal linguistitic model is presented, which produces, for a given conceptual representation of an extralinguistic situation, a corresponding semantic representation [SemR] that, in its turn, underlies the deep-syntactic representations of four near-synonymous Russian sentences expressing the starting information. Two full-fledged lexical entries are given for the lexemes besporjadki ‘disturbance’ and stolknovenie ‘clash(N)’, appearing in these sentences. Some principles of lexicalization – that is, matching the formal lexicographic definitions to the starting semantic representation in order to produce the deep-syntactic structures of the corresponding sentences – are formulated and illustrated; the problem of approximate matching is dealt with in sufficient detail.

Keywords: NLP, semantic synthesis, semantic representation, semantic matching, deep-syntactic representation, lexical entries of the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary, Russian
Article outline
  • 1.Stating the problem
  • 2.The starting conceptual representation
  • 3.A fragment of the “Concepts Semantemes” dictionary for Russian
  • 4.A starting Russian semantic representation
  • 5.Lexical entries of two Russian lexemes: besporjadki ‘disturbance’ and stolknovenie ‘clash(N)’
    • 5.1Besporjadki ‘disturbance’
      • 5.1.1Lexical entry of besporjadki ‘disturbance’
      • 5.1.2Comments on the lexical entry of besporjadki ‘disturbance’
        • ① Individualization of the lexeme besporjadki
        • ② Generic component of the semanteme ‘besporjadki = disturbance’
        • ③ Disjunctions in the definition of the lexeme besporjadki
        • ④ Split actantial variables Z1 and Z2 in the definition of the lexeme besporjadki
        • ⑤ The semantic components ‘odnovremenno = simultaneously’ and ‘v odnom meste = in one spot’
        • ➅ Actant ‘Х’ I of the lexeme besporjadki
    • 5.2Stolknovenie ‘clash(N)’
      • 5.2.1Lexical entry of stolknovenie ‘clash(N)’
      • 5.2.2Comments on the lexical entry of stolknovenie ‘clash’
        • ①Generic component of the lexicographic definition of the lexeme stolknovenie ‘clash(N)’: ‘konfliktii.2 = conflictii.2’
        • ② Split actantial variables Z1 and Z2 in the definition of the lexeme stolknovenie
        • ③ Lexical functions with a key noun in the plural
    • 5.3Comparison of the semantemes ‘besporjadki = disturbance’ and ‘stolknovenie = clash’
  • 6.Transition from SemR (5) to the DSynt-representations of sentences (2) and (3)
    • 6.1Transition from the Sem-structure in (5) to the DSynt-structures of sentences (2) and (3)
    • 6.2Lexicalization principles
    • 6.3Constructing the DSynt-structure of sentence (2а) (besporjadki priveli k gibeli)
    • 6.4Constructing the DSynt-structure of sentence (3а) (v rezulʹtate besporjadkov pogibli)
    • 6.5Constructing the DSynt-structure of sentence (2b) (stolknovenija priveli k gibeli)
    • 6.6Constructing the DSynt-structure of sentence (3b) (v rezulʹtate stolknovenij pogibli)
    • 6.7Filtering out wrong lexicalizations
  • 7.Additional principles for the partial matchings of lexicographic definitions to the SemR
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 20 September 2021
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