FeforRmrs

MRS and RMRS

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Joint discussion session including (some) grammarians and (some) processing folk. Very roughly divided into topics that are more-or-less grammar internal and those which are more related to the external use of MRS/RMRS.

MRS in grammars

Afternoon of June 14th

• Algebra and composition (AnnCopestake). The status of the HOOK.INDEX in MRS/RMRS (FrancisBond).

• Scoping constraints: beyond qeqs (BertholdCrysmann)

• Quantifiers with nominal relation (EmilyBender).

• Pronoun rels vs prodrop (EmilyBender) Inserting pronoun-rels v. leaving unbound indices in pro-drop (aka null instantiation).

• Representations of discourse status (EmilyBender).

• Messages: what are they good for? (FrancisBond, AnnCopestake, DanFlickinger)

• MRS test suite: extension (DanFlickinger) and parallel test suites (ValiaKordoni)

MRS and RMRS and the outside world

Morning of June 15th

• Tense/aspect/plurality etc features in MRS and RMRS.

• MRS wellformedness issues???(NTNU).

• MRSs in translation and the prospects for MRS-based interlinguas vs MRS-based transfer (LarsAhrenberg).

• Lexical semantics and the SEM-I. Hierarchies: type hierarcies versus OWL. (AnnCopestake, AnetteFrank)

• Context modelling in (R)MRS: anaphora etc (AnetteFrank, AnnCopestake)