Linking in fluid construction grammars

Abstract

One of the key problems in any language processing system is to establish an adequate syntax/semantics interface, and one of the major requirements of such an interface is that partial meanings contributed by individual words are properly linked with each other based on grammatical constructions. This paper reports how we deal with this problem within the context of Fluid Construction Grammars (fcg). Fcg is a general unification-based inference engine which has been designed to support experiments in the self-organisation of language in a population of interacting situated embodied agents. The paper focuses on technical details pertaining to the linking problem.