Alastair Butler – Publications

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Books

Butler, Alastair. 2015. Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing: A Practical Approach, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. 172 pp (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2010. The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 23, Bingley: Emerald. 250 pp (link).

Butler, Alastair and Eric Mathieu. 2004. The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions: A Comparative Study, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 240 pp (link).

Articles in Refereed Journals

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2012. Banking Meaning Representations from Treebanks. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology - LiLT 7(6): 1–22 (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2011. Semantically restricted argument dependencies. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 20(1): 69–114 (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2009. Quantification support with indeterminate pronouns. Journal of Cognitive Science 10(2): 113–133 (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2007. Scope Control and Grammatical Dependencies. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 16(3): 241–264 (link).

Butler, Alastair, Edward L. Keenan and Jason Mattausch. 2007. Editorial: Semantic Approaches to Binding. Research on Language and Computation 5(1): 1–3 (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2007. Binding Effects with Scope Control. Research on Language and Computation 5(1): 49–67 (link).

Edited Volumes

Motomura, Yoichi, Alastair Butler and Daisuke Bekki, eds. 2013. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7856, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. 257 pp (link).

Aloni, Maria, Alastair Butler and Paul Dekker, eds. 2007. Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 17, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 358 pp (link).

Butler, Alastair, Edward L. Keenan and Jason Mattausch, eds. 2007. Semantic Approaches to Binding, Special issue of Research on Language and Computation, Volume 5, Issue 1, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. 131 pp (link).

Chapters in Books

Butler, Alastair and Stephen Wright Horn. 2018. Annotating Syntax and Lexical Semantics With(out) Indexing. In S. Arai, K. Kojima, K. Mineshima, D. Bekki, K. Satoh and Y. Ohta, eds., JSAI-isAI 2017, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 10838, pages 299–313, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2014. Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies. In Eric McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita and Kei Yoshimoto, eds., Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Volume 95, pages 65–83, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer (link).

Butler, Alastair, Ruriko Otomo, Zhen Zhou and Kei Yoshimoto. 2013. Treebank Annotation for Formal Semantics Research. In Yoichi Motomura, Alastair Butler and Daisuke Bekki, eds., New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2012 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, MiMI, Miyazaki, Japan, November 30 and December 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7856, pages 25–40, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2012. Towards a Self-selective and Self-healing Evaluation. In Manabu Okumura, Daisuke Bekki and Ken Satoh, eds., New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2011 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, ALSIP, MiMI, Takamatsu, Japan, December 1-2, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7258, pages 96–109, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2011. Interpreting Japanese Dependency Structure. In Takashi Onada, Daisuke Bekki and Eric McCready, eds., New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2010 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, AMBN, ISS, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-19, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6797, pages 30–44, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2010. Problems with Intervention and Binding into Relations. In Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yohei Murakami and Eric McCready, eds., New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2009 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, KCSD, LLLL, Tokyo, Japan, November 19-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6284, pages 181–196, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag (link).

Butler, Alastair, Chidori Nakamura and Kei Yoshimoto. 2009. Topic/Subject Coreference in the Hierarchy of Japanese Complex Sentences. In Hiromitsu Hattori, Takahiro Kawamura, Tsuyoshi Id\f0\'e9, Makoto Yokoo and Yohei Murakami, eds., New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 11–13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5447, pages 119–132, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2008. Coordinating and Subordinating Dependencies. In Ken Satoh, Akihiro Inokuchi, Katashi Nagao and Takahiro Kawamura, eds., New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Miyazaki, Japan, June 18–22, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4914, pages 149–159, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag (link).

Butler, Alastair and Mark Donohue. 2007. Argument Dependencies in Tukang Besi. In Balder ten Cate and Henk Zeevat, eds., Logic, Language, and Computation, 6th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2005, Batumi, Georgia, September 12–16, 2005. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4363, pages 72–84, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2007. Counting (on) Usage Information: WH Questions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. In Maria Aloni, Alastair Butler and Paul Dekker, eds., Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 17, pages 269–293, Amsterdam: Elsevier (link).

Aloni, Maria, Alastair Butler and Darrin Hindsill. 2007. Nuclear Accent, Focus and Bidirectional OT. In Maria Aloni, Alastair Butler and Paul Dekker, eds., Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 17, pages 253–268, Amsterdam: Elsevier (link).

Dekker, Paul, Maria Aloni and Alastair Butler. 2007. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions. In Maria Aloni, Alastair Butler and Paul Dekker, eds., Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 17, pages 1–40, Amsterdam: Elsevier (link).

Butler, Alastair and Eric Mathieu. 2005. Split-DPs, the Generalized EPP and Visibility. In Martha McGinnis and Norvin Richards, eds., Perspective on Phases. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 49, pages 49–67, MIT (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2001. Degree Relatives are Ordinary Relatives. In Rachel Hastings, Brendan Jackson and Zsofia Zvolenszky, eds., Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XI Proceedings, pages 76–94, Cornell University: CLC Publications (link).

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Horn, Stephen Wright, Alastair Butler, Iku Nagasaki and Kei Yoshimoto. 2018. Derived mappings for FrameNet construction from a parsed corpus of Japanese. In LREC 2018 Proceedings, International FrameNet Workshop, 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 28–32, Miyazaki, Japan (link).

長崎郁, 長崎郁, アラステア・バトラー, スティーブン・ライト・ホーン, プラシャント・パルデシ and 吉本. 2018. 統語解析情報付きコーパス検索用インタフェースの開発. In 『言語処理学会第24回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twenty Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 1123–1126, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair and Stephen Wright Horn. 2017. Annotating syntax and lexical semantics with(out) indexing. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 14), Tokyo, Japan: JSAI.

Horn, Stephen Wright, Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto. 2017. Keyaki Treebank segmentation and part-of-speech labelling. In 『言語処理学会第23回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twenty Third Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 414–417, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2016. From meaning representations to syntactic trees. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 13), pages 147–160, Tokyo, Japan: JSAI (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2016. DynamicPower at SemEval-2016 Task 8: Processing syntactic parse trees with a Dynamic Semantics core. In Proceedings of SemEval-2016, pages 1148–1153, San Diego, California: Association for Computational Linguistics (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2016. Deterministic natural language generation from meaning representations for machine translation. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Semantics-Driven Machine Translation, pages 1–9, San Diego, California: Association for Computational Linguistics (link).

Butler, Alastair, 吉本啓, 岸本秀樹 and プラシャント・パルデシ. 2016. 「統語・意味解析情報付き日本語コーパスのアノテーション」. In 『言語処理学会第22回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twenty Second Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 589–592, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair. 2015. Something, namely “SomethingNamely”. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 12), pages 215–228, JSAI International Symposia on AI.

Butler, Alastair. 2015. Round trips with meaning stopovers. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation (S2MT 2015), pages 1–10, Association for Computational Linguistics (link).

Pardeshi, Prashant, Alastair Butler, Kei Yoshimoto and Hideki Kishimoto. 2015. 「統語・意味解析情報付き日本語コーパスの開発」. In 『言語処理学会第21回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 20–23, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2015. Large scale semantic representation with flame graphs. In 『言語処理学会第21回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 301–304, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair, Shota Hiayama and Kei Yoshimoto. 2015. Coindexed null elements for a Japanese parsed corpus. In 『言語処理学会第21回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twenty First Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 708–711, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Zhou, Zhen, Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto. 2015. 「中国語意味解析コーパス構築のための句レベルのスコープアノテーション -文の構成要素の間のコントロール関係の同定および否定の作用域の制御を中心に-」. In 『言語処理学会第21回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 856–859, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2014. Semantic Visualisation with Flame Graphs. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 11), pages 205–215, JSAI International Symposia on AI.

Butler, Alastair. 2014. Meaning representations from Japanese and English treebanks. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 11), JSAI, 2I4-OS-08a-5in (link).

Fang, Tsaiwei, Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto. 2014. Parsing Japanese with a PCFG treebank grammar. In 『言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 432–435, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Zhou, Zhen, Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto. 2014. 「中国語コントロール構文の解析」. In 『言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 670–673, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Hiayama, Shota, Kei Yoshimoto and Alastair Butler. 2014. 「連体修飾節における曖昧性とその解決策の提案」. In 『言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 674–677, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair, Tsaiwei Fang, Shota Hiayama, Zhen Zhou, Tomoya Kosuge and Kei Yoshimoto. 2014. 「統辞・意味情報を付加した日本語コーパスの構築 欅ツリーバンクプロトタイプについて」. In 『言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 904–907, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2014. Meaning representations from treebank annotation. In 『言語処理学会第20回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 1023-1026, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Zhou, Zhen, Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto. 2013. 「中国語統語解析木の形式変換及びその応用に関する研究—Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0) を対象として—」. In 『言語処理学会第19回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 920-923, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Yoshimoto, Kei, Zhen Zhou, Tomoya Kosuge, Ruriko Otomo and Alastair Butler. 2013. 「日本語ツリーバンクのアノテーション方針」. In 『言語処理学会第19回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 924-927, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

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Butler, Alastair, Ruriko Otomo, Zhen Zhou and Kei Yoshimoto. 2012. Treebank Annotation for Formal Semantics Research. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 9), JSAI International Symposia on AI.

Butler, Alastair, Zhen Zhou and Kei Yoshimoto. 2012. Problems for successful bunsetsu based parsing and some solutions. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 951–954, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair, Zhen Zhou, Tomoko Hotta, Su Zhang and Kei Yoshimoto. 2011. Development of Corpora Tagged with High-Precision Semantic Information. In 『言語処理学会第17回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Seventeeth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 713-716, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Zhou, Zhen, Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto. 2012. Combining and splitting bunsetsu of the Kyoto Text Corpus. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 381–384, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Miyao, Yusuke, Alastair Butler, Kei Yoshimoto and Jun'ichi Tsujii. 2010. A Modular Architecture for the Wide-Coverage Translation of Natural Language Texts into Predicate Logic Formulas. In Proceedings of PACLIC 24: the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pages 481-488, Sendai, Japan (link).

Butler, Alastair, Yusuke Miyao, Kei Yoshimoto and Jun'ichi Tsujii. 2010. A Constrained Semantics for Parsed English. In 『言語処理学会第15回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 836–839, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Yoshimoto, Kei, Chidori Nakamura and Alastair Butler. 2009. Towards Establishing a Hierarchy in the Japanese Sentence Structure. In Proceedings of PACLIC 23: the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pages 875–882, Hong Kong (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2009. Shallow Grammar + Constrained Semantics = Deep Grammar. In 『言語処理学会第15回年次大会発表論文集』Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, pages 662–665, The Association of Natural Language Processing (link).

Butler, Alastair and Kei Yoshimoto. 2009. Who's on First. In Daisuke Bekki, ed., Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 6), pages 91–100, JSAI International Symposia on AI.

Yoshimoto, Kei, Chidori Nakamura and Alastair Butler. 2009. Hierarchy-based Interpretation of Tense in Japanese Complex Sentences. In Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of the papers selected from the CIL 18, Held at Korea University in Seoul, pages 3417–3435, LSK (The Linguistic Society of Korea).

Butler, Alastair. 2008. Quantification with Hidden Variables. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 2008), pages 749–752, The Korean Society for Cognitive Science.

Yoshimoto, Kei, Chidori Nakamura and Alastair Butler. 2008. Hierarchy-based Interpretation of Tense in Japanese Complex Sentences. In Proceedings of International Congress of Linguists 18, Vol. 2, pages 332-333.

Butler, Alastair, Chidori Nakamura and Kei Yoshimoto. 2008. Topic/Subject Coreference in the Hierarchy of Japanese Complex Sentences. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, pages 1–13, 22nd Annual Conference of JSAI.

Butler, Alastair. 2004. Barrier Logic: A Semantics for Covaluation and Binding. In Rusudan Asatiania, Kata Balogh, George Chikoidze, Paul Dekker and Dick de Jongh, eds., Proceedings of the Fifth Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Information, pages 6–10, ILLC, University of Amsterdam and CLLS, Tbilisi State University.

Butler, Alastair. 2003. Predicate Logic with Barriers and its locality effects. In Matthias Weisgerber, ed., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 7, Arbeitspapier Nr. 114, pages 70–80, University of Konstanz, Germany: FB Sprachwissenschaft.

Butler, Alastair. 2002. Relatives and There-insertion. In Marjo van Koppen, Erica Thrift, Erik Jan van der Torre and Malte Zimmermann, eds., Proceedings of ConSOLE IX, pages 28–40, ConSOLE.

Butler, Alastair. 2002. Negation Float in Turkish. In Gébor Alberti, Kata Balogh and Paul Dekker, eds., Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language, pages 7–15, Hungary: University of Pécs.

Butler, Alastair. 2001. Sentences with Exhaustification. In Harry Bunt, Ielka van der Sluis and Elias Thijsse, eds., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pages 21–34, Tilburg: Computational Linguistics and AI Group.



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