Toward a Universal Underspecified Semantic Representation
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چکیده
We define Canonical Form Minimal Recursion Semantics (CF-MRS) and prove that all the well-formed MRS structures generated by the MRS semantic composition algorithm are in this form. We prove that the qeq relationships are equivalent to outscoping relations when MRS structures are in this form. This result fills the gap between some underspecification formalisms and motivates defining a Canonical Form Underspecified Representation (CF-UR) which brings those underspecification formalisms together.
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