This paper presents the first empirical results to our knowledge on learning synchronous grammars that generate logical forms. Using statistical machine translation techniques, a semantic parser based on a synchronous context-free grammar augmented with lambda-operators is learned given a set of training sentences and their correct logical forms. The resulting parser is shown to be the best-performing system so far in a database query domain.

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In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.

@InProceedings{wong:acl07, title={Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus}, author={Yuk Wah Wong and Raymond J. Mooney}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2007)}, month={June}, address={Prague, Czech Republic}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?wong:acl07", year={2007} }