%0 Conference Paper %1 Copestake:1995 %A Copestake, Ann %A Flickinger, Dan %A Malouf, Rob %A Riehemann, Susanne %A Sag, Ivan %B Proc. TMI95 %C Leuven, Belgium %D 1995 %K MRS machine_translation %T Translation Using Minimal Recursion Semantics %U http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/45951.html %X We describe minimal recursion semantics (MRS), a framework for semantics within HPSG, which considerably simplifies transfer and generation. We discuss why, in general, a semantic representation with minimal structure is desirable for transfer and illustrate how a descriptively adequate representation with a non-recursive structure may be achieved. The paper illustrates the application of MRS to transfer with a series of examples and compares the approach to others which have been previously adopted within unification based frameworks. Our account involves the use of both language-specific and interlingual predicates or relations and we illustrate how this may be exploited to allow MRS to...

@inproceedings{Copestake:1995, abstract = {We describe minimal recursion semantics (MRS), a framework for semantics within HPSG, which considerably simplifies transfer and generation. We discuss why, in general, a semantic representation with minimal structure is desirable for transfer and illustrate how a descriptively adequate representation with a non-recursive structure may be achieved. The paper illustrates the application of MRS to transfer with a series of examples and compares the approach to others which have been previously adopted within unification based frameworks. Our account involves the use of both language-specific and interlingual predicates or relations and we illustrate how this may be exploited to allow MRS to...}, added-at = {2007-12-14T02:37:38.000+0100}, address = {Leuven, Belgium}, author = {Copestake, Ann and Flickinger, Dan and Malouf, Rob and Riehemann, Susanne and Sag, Ivan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d7de9309356d7b76687409c8efa09d85/diego_ma}, booktitle = {Proc. TMI95}, interhash = {20ea54d9d889d56002815b22b0812d59}, intrahash = {d7de9309356d7b76687409c8efa09d85}, keywords = {MRS machine_translation}, timestamp = {2007-12-14T02:37:38.000+0100}, title = {Translation Using Minimal Recursion Semantics}, url = {http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/45951.html}, year = 1995 }