Translation Using Minimal Recursion Semantics
Proc. TMI95, Leuven, Belgium, (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...