A case for rule-driven semantic processing

INTRODUCTION The primary cask of semantic procasein S is to provide an appropriate mapping between the eyntactic conetltuents of a parsed eentence and the arSumente of the semantic predicates implied by the verb. known as the Alignment Problem.Levin Section One of thle paper overview of a generally accepted approach to semantic procasein S that soee through eeveral levele of repreeentation to achieve this mappin S . Although somewhat inflexible and cumbersome, the different levels succeed in preeervin S the context sensitive information provided by verb eemantice. Section Two preeente the authore rule-driven approach which is more uniform and flezible yet etill accommodates context eeneitive conattaints. This approach is baeed on sanetel underlyin S principles for eyntactic methods of introducing semantic arguments and has interesting implications for linguistic theories about case. These implications are dlcueeed in Section Three. A system that implements this approach has been d