Author: Gerald Penn

Title: HPSG Design and Meet Semi-latticehood

Abstract:
This talk will provide an overview of meet semi-latticehood in
HPSG design.  Meet semi-latticehood is a structural condition on
type inheritance hierarchies that ensures that the result of every
unification can be determistically assigned a type.  We'll take
a close look at some of the justifications for eliminating this
condition, the computational methods for working around it,
and a new proposal for how to cope with its absence in grammar
design systems.