Matching human understanding: Syntax and semantics revisited

This paper revises the classic Ontological Semantics theory with regard to the output of the analyzer. We argue that it is not enough to produce semantic interpretation of text, and syntactic trees should serve not only as clues for semantic processing but also as an output in its own right. We show that it is useful to combine both results of syntactic and semantic processing in a single output while at the same time maintaining its own unique pieces on testbed of several sentences containing complex nominals and compare these results to interpretations of human subjects.