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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/12/2015 01:28, Woodley Packard
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      <div class="">However, I don’t see that the class of rules Ann
        alluded to has to be monotonic.  For example, the lexicon could
        be underspecified for POS or sense, and lexical rules could
        specialize that.</div>
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    I don't actually like this (with my lexical rule hat on) but I agree
    it should be possible (with my supporting useful formal devices hat
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    Cheers,<br>
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    Ann<br>
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      <div class="">-Woodley<br class="">
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              <div class="">On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Emily M. Bender
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                <div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Ann, Dear all,<br class="">
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                  I wanted to follow up on a comment Ann made in the
                  recent thread<br class="">
                  on predicate naming in MRS.  I've changed the subject
                  line because<br class="">
                  I think this is orthogonal to the main discussion in
                  the previous thread.<br class="">
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                  Ann's comment:<br class="">
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                  From: Ann Copestake &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:aac10@cl.cam.ac.uk" class="">aac10@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>&gt;<br
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                  Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:54 PM<br class="">
                  Subject: Re: [developers] predicate naming in MRS<br
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                  To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:developers@delph-in.net" class="">developers@delph-in.net</a><br
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                  The case issue also relates to treating the predicates
                  as having a three-part structure (lexeme/pos/sense)
                  throughout the codebase (with an option to allow
                  simpler names for toy grammars).  This is something we
                  have been discussing for a long time ... I believe
                  that this is the right way to look at predicate
                  symbols in *MRS - i.e., as an additional annotation on
                  lexemes.  There would be advantages to doing this in
                  the grammar - it allows for alternations that change
                  sense to be implemented in lexical rules.  If we do
                  this, then the lexeme part should reflect the
                  conventional spelling, which might include case
                  variation (and, naturally, non-ASCII characters).<br
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                  I was surprised by this remark, because lexical rules
                  changing predicate
                  <div class="">symbols (if that's what you mean, Ann)
                    strikes me as non-monotonic.</div>
                  <div class="">Can you clarify?</div>
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                  <div class="">Thanks,</div>
                  <div class="">Emily</div>
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                    --<br class="">
                    Emily M. Bender<br class="">
                    Professor, Department of Linguistics<br class="">
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