Invited Talk: Slacker Semantics: Why Superficiality, Dependency and Avoidance of Commitment can be the Right Way to Go

This paper discusses computational compositional semantics from the perspective of grammar engineering, in the light of experience with the use of Minimal Recursion Semantics in DELPH-IN grammars. The relationship between argument indexation and semantic role labelling is explored and a semantic dependency notation (DMRS) is introduced.

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