A new well-formedness criterion for semantics debugging

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2005.7

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We present a novel well-formedness condition for underspecified semantic representations which requires that every correct MRS representation must be a net. We argue that (almost) all correct MRS representations are indeed nets, and apply this condition to identify a set of eleven rules in the English Resource Grammar (ERG) with bugs in their semantics component. Thus we demonstrate that the net test is useful in grammar debugging.

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2005-10-17

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Flickinger, Dan & Koller, Alexander & Thater, Stefan. 2005. A new well-formedness criterion for semantics debugging. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 129–142. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2005.7) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/609) (Accessed March 28, 2024.)