RmrsDiscussions

This is a page for gathering links to notes on the wiki about MRS, representations of phenomena in MRS and related discussions. This list is probably only partial, and additional links are welcome.

• From the Fefor Summit (FeforRmrs), June 2006:

  • FeforRmrs

  • FeforScopingConstraints

  • FeforQuantifiers

  • FeforDroppedArguments

  • FeforDiscourseStatus

  • FeforMessageDemise

  • MatrixMrsTestSuite

  • FeforPng

• From the Cambridge meeting, May 2008:

  • Demo/discussion of paraphrasing

  • RmrsDistributional

• From the Barcelona Summit, July 2009:

  • Tense and Aspect

  • MRS Postprocessing

  • Paraphrasing

• From the Paris Summit, July 2010:

  • ParisInformationStructure

• From the Suquamish (Seattle-area) Summit, June 2011:

  • WordNet integration

  • Lexical Semantics

  • FormatSpecifications

• From the WeSearch Hankø meeting, May 2012:

  • MRS representation design principles

  • towards a catalogue of stable semantic analyses (and documentation)

  • scopal arguments in coordination

  • anaphor links (ICONS)

  • underspecification of modifier attachment

  • predicate symbols underspecified for arity

  • specification of co-reference: *''I bit her tongue''

  • And other topics: PEST examples discussion, etc.

• From the Sofia Summit, July 2012:

  • ICONS and Information Structure

  • More on ICONS

  • Format Specifications

  • Cross-Grammar Harmony

  • MRS Comparison

• Mini-symposium on MRS modeling at UW, November 2012

• ERG Semantic Documentation, begun under the auspices of WeSearch in February 2013

• Mini-symposium on named entities and MRS at UW, February 2013

• From the Saarland Summit, July-August 2013

  • SEM-I: history, goals, future developments

  • SaarlandArity: mini-discussion prompted by Mathieu's talk on (D)MRS comparison

  • LTOP on NP

  • Improved representation of tense (and maybe aspect) using ICONS

  • Information structure via ICONS in ERG

  • Representation of clausal arguments in MRS

• AbbeyApposition: Discussion of appositives, non-restrictive relatives and related phenomena, August 2013

• From the Bellingham sub-group meeting, hosted by the Abbey, February 2014

  • Can RMRS be used to underspecify argument v. intersective modifier uses of PPs?

  • How does arity underspecification impact the mapping to the object language?

  • What external desiderata do we use to judge some representation as better than another?

  • A modest proposal for reworking the representation of (complex) proper nouns

  • Thoughts on MRSs as lattices representing alternative views

  • Working towards MRS-centric terminology for subgraphs

  • Are unbounded sets of scopal operators allowed in logic?

  • Thoughts on representing the information provided by binding theoretic constraints

  • Possessive idioms and coreference resolution (rough notes)

  • When should verbal projections be wrapped in nominalization before serving as arguments?

  • Should deverbal nouns take an ARG1 corresponding to the verb's?

• From the Tomar Summit, July 2014

  • A discussion of DELPH-IN MRS conventions and MRS formal wellformedness constraints

  • Quantum MRS, with a special focus on idioms and linking to WordNet representation of lexical semantics

• From the Comparative Computational Semantics Workshop, November 2014 (not exclusively about MRS)

  • First Day: Control, (Closed) Clausal Complements/Propositional Arguments

  • Second Day: Gerunds (aka Closed Clausal Complements, cont), Nominalization, (Identity) Copulae

  • Third Day: Identity Copulae (cont, `:' and others), Comparatives

• From the Singapore Summit, August 2015

  • Exploring constraints on MRS Wellformedness

  • Exploring apparently off-algebra analyses in current grammars

  • DMRS simplification

  • MT and SMT model building over (D)MRS

  • Representation of MWEs

  • Representation of Pragmatic information

  • SIG on testing for semantic algebra compliance

  • Some discussion of the idea of unifying EPs (to effectively suppress a second copy) in Chinese A-not-A questions

• Virtual Linguistic Analysis Design session regarding Lushootseed and RMRS, October 2015

• From the Stanford Summit, June 2016

  • Alternative Sets: Is the info in MRS sufficient? Role of information structure?

  • Intrinsic Variable Principle: What happens if we drop insistence on unique EP for each intrinsic variable?

  • Revisiting Compositionality: Discussion following up on Ann's presentation Revisiting Compositionality

• From the Oslo Summit, August 2017

  • OsloScopalNonScopal: What is the difference between scopal and non-scopal modifiers, and how do we tell which is which?

  • OsloEventsInstances: What is the difference between events and instances, and do we have to keep them distinct?

  • OsloQuestionRepresentation: How can we capture the info that was lost when we dropped messages and thus the PARAMS list?

• From SynSem at CAS, 2017-2018

  • SynSem/Activities/PolymorphicVariadicPredicates (April 2018)

• From the Diderot Summit, June 2018

  • Scope of Temporal Modifiers: Quantifiers allow PP adverbials to scope above scopal modifiers

  • DiderotConstrainingComposition: What constructions would push the limits of the composition algebra?

  • DiderotUnderspecifiedAttachment: Should we underspecify PP attachment, and if so, how?

• From the Cambridge Summit, July 2019

  • CambridgeWhEvents: Linking wh words to specific questions (i.e. clauses) in the MRS, follow up to OsloQuestionRepresentation

  • CambridgeSEM-I: Do We Even Care About Fixed Arity Anymore?

  • CambridgeNominalization: Semantics of nominalization

• From the Virtual Summit, July 2020

  • VirtualCoordinationComposition: What should the analysis of coordination look like? How does this relate to an AM algebra from DMRS composition?

• From the the 2021 Virtual Summit, July 2021

  • Virtual2021PluralSemantics: How to relate morphosyntactic marking of plurality to semantic plurality?