<div dir="ltr">Hello again, developers,<div><br></div><div>With the upcoming ERG release including ICONS, I'd like to make sure PyDelphin is ready to accommodate. Internally, PyDelphin has no trouble storing ICONS for MRS and DMRS (I believe they are discarded in the conversion to EDS, though), but I am only able to serialize them for MRS representations (SimpleMRS, MRX, Prolog, and MRS-JSON).</div><div><br></div><div>The last I heard, Ann had settled on a way of representing ICONS in DMRS as just a special kind of link, but I have not seen much as far as concrete proposals;. Does anybody have a link (the URL kind, e.g., to a wiki or presentation slides) that illustrates this method? The only thing I see is a proposal by Stephan on this list in 2016: <a href="http://lists.delph-in.net/archives/developers/2016/002200.html">http://lists.delph-in.net/archives/developers/2016/002200.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>If there is nothing "official" yet, can I just propose an adaptation of Stephan's "variant (b)" that changes dmrs.dtd like this (following existing conventions):</div><div><br></div><div><div> <!ELEMENT link (rargname, post, icons?)></div></div><div> ...</div><div> <!ELEMENT icons (#PCDATA)><br></div><div><br></div><div>This allows 'ICONS: < e2 topic x4 >' (in SimpleMRS) to be expressed as, e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div> <link from="10000" to="10001"><rargname /><post /><icons>topic</icons></link></div><div><br></div><div>Note: this allows icons to overlap with existing links; if there's no existing link, <rargname> and <post> are empty, as above (or we could make them optional on links).</div><div><br></div><div>In the "slashed" representation, we could add another slash only if ICONS are present:</div><div><br></div><div>* regular link: 10001:ARG1/NEQ 10002</div><div>* overlapping link: 10001:ARG1/NEQ/topic 10002</div><div>* ICONS-only link: 10001://topic 10002</div><div><br></div><div>Also note: in the above, I'm making the assumption that there's only one or zero ICONS between any two individuals. It would be trivial to allow multiple <icons> elements in a <link> in the XML, but it's less clear how to do that in the slashed representation (maybe just a second, ICONS-only link). I also assume that the two ends of an ICONS are individuals that are the ARG0s of some EPs (i.e., not dropped arguments using "i" variables).</div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, is ICONS something that EDS should care about? EDS ignores scope (except during conversion), so maybe it doesn't worry about information structure (or other uses of ICONS) either? But if it does, how might it be represented?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div>