[developers] Paraphrase grammars and SEMI's

[Francis Bond]

2009/5/25 Berthold Crysmann <crysmann at ifk.uni-bonn.de>:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 21:59 +0900, Francis Bond wrote:
>> G'day,
>>
>>    we would like to solicit opinions (especially from Dan) about the
>> following question:
>>
>> If you are making a paraphrase grammar, should it use the language
>> internal MRS, or the post SEM-I external MRS.
>>
>> That is:
>>
>> Internal: TEXT - ERG - MRS -　EnEn - MRS - ERG - TEXT
>> or
>> External: TEXT -ERG - MRS - MRS' - EnEn - MRS' - MRS - ERG - TEXT
>>
>>
>> My view is that we should use the external MRS for the following reasons:
>
> Seconded.
>
> We did some paraphrasing with GG in Checkpoint. At that time, the
> paraphraser was using the internal MRS. As a result, I had to
> cross-classify internal and external semantic semantic entities, such
> that the types in mtr.tdl were compatible with both universes. The
> result is not a beauty.

Thanks.  That's another good reason.


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