%0 Report %1 Copestake:1997 %A Copestake, Ann %A Flickinger, Dan %A Sag, Ivan A. %C Stanford, CA %D 1997 %K MRS HPSG underspecification %T Minimal Recursion Semantics: an Introduction %U http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/publications.html %X We describe minimal recursion semantics (MRS), a framework for computational semantics which simplifies the design of algorithms. We have integrated an implementation of MRS with an HPSG grammar for both parsing and generation that enables a simple formulation of the grammatical constraints on lexical and phrasal semantics. We discuss why, in general, a semantic representation with minimal structure is desirable and illustrate how a descriptively adequate representation with a nonrecursive structure may be achieved.

@techreport{Copestake:1997, abstract = {We describe minimal recursion semantics (MRS), a framework for computational semantics which simplifies the design of algorithms. We have integrated an implementation of MRS with an HPSG grammar for both parsing and generation that enables a simple formulation of the grammatical constraints on lexical and phrasal semantics. We discuss why, in general, a semantic representation with minimal structure is desirable and illustrate how a descriptively adequate representation with a nonrecursive structure may be achieved.}, added-at = {2007-12-14T02:37:39.000+0100}, address = {Stanford, CA}, author = {Copestake, Ann and Flickinger, Dan and Sag, Ivan A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26923b67c4ce6ef8d83b2749a46e7665e/diego_ma}, institution = {CSLI, Stanford University}, interhash = {e61e8570ec9152d5b69a95187c9779f8}, intrahash = {6923b67c4ce6ef8d83b2749a46e7665e}, keywords = {MRS HPSG underspecification}, timestamp = {2007-12-14T02:37:39.000+0100}, title = {Minimal Recursion Semantics: an Introduction}, url = {http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/publications.html}, year = 1997 }