Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Translation, Evaluation, and Analysis

We show that a practical translation of MRS descriptions into normal dominance constraints is feasible. We start from a recent theoretical translation and verify its assumptions on the outputs of the English Resource Grammar (ERG) on the Redwoods corpus. The main assumption of the translation-that all relevant underspecified descriptions are nets--is validated for a large majority of cases; all non-nets computed by the ERG seem to be systematically incomplete.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Ruth Fuchss, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Stefan Thater
• Keywords: ACL 2004, ACL 2007, English Resource Grammar, Normal Dominance Constraints, Relevant Underspecified Descriptions