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title: "Incremental Interpretation and Combinatory Categorial Grammar"
authors:
  - "Nicholas J. Haddock"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/130"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0130.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "661-662"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Incremental Interpretation and Combinatory Categorial Grammar

Nicholas J. Haddock

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 661-662.

## Abstract

The paper is organised around a particular problem of anaphotic definite reference. A solution to this problem requires sentence processing which allows semantic representations to be evaluated incrementally, as a phrase is read from left to right. The paper shows how a proposal made by Mellish (I985), to regard incremental semantic evaluation as a constraint satisfaction task, can provide a natural solution to the problem of reference. The incorporation of Combinatory Categorial Grammar allows a straightforward relationship to be stated between the incrementally assembled syntactic and semantic representations.