This paper presents the syntactic annotation level of a project aimed at providing a small dialog corpus with multiple levels of annotation. The syntactic annotation is based on dependency syntax. We outline the reasons for choosing dependency, and show the syntactic annotation for some constructions. We finish by describing the current state of the project.

This paper adresses the problem of modelling paraphrases in a deep linguistic processing framework where the meaning construction component is based on an LFG grammar. We present a syntax-based approach to paraphrase extraction that operates on shallow dependency analyses in a parallel corpus. By means of an XLE-based conversion routine, we generate transfer rules for the automatically acquired...

This paper adresses the problem of modelling paraphrases in a deep linguistic processing framework where the meaning construction component is based on an LFG grammar. We present a syntax-based approach to paraphrase extraction that operates on shallow dependency analyses in a parallel corpus. By means of an XLE-based conversion routine, we generate transfer rules for the automatically acquired...

The London Underground Diagram (LUD) is a cognitive artifact and a well-known example of representational efficiency, having been copied by urban transportation systems worldwide. Here we describe the design of the LUD as an example of cognitive niche construction happening through iconic meaning of a problem space. We argue that the LUD's meaning is grounded on the offer of opportunities for a...