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Formal and informal meaning from documents through skeleton
sentences
Complementing formal tag-set descriptions with intertextual
semantics and vice-versa
Yves Marcoux
Associate professor
Université de Montréal, Canada
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Black Mesa Technologies LLC
Claus Huitfeldt
Associate professor
University of Bergen, Norway
Abstract
In [Sperberg-McQueen et al. 2000a], Sperberg-McQueen et al. describe a
framework in which the semantics of a structured document is represented by the
set of inferences (statements)
licensed by the document, that is, statements
which can be considered to hold on the basis of the document.
The authors suggest that an adequate set of basic inferences can be
generated from the document itself by a fairly simple skeleton sentence and deictic
expression mechanism. These ideas were taken up and developed in
various ways and contexts in later work (see for example [Sperberg-McQueen et al. 2002]) and came to be called the “Formal tag-set
description” approach (FTSD). The approach is independent of any
particular logical system, and the possibility that the statements licensed by
a document be in natural language has been mentioned and exemplified, though
not to a large extent.
With a different set of preoccupations in mind (namely, providing
semantic support to an author during the document creation process), Marcoux
introduced in [Marcoux 2006] intertextual
semantics (IS), a framework in which the meaning of a document is
entirely and exclusively represented by natural language segments.
In this paper, we compare the IS and FTSD approaches, and argue
that the insights into the meaning of a document supplied by the two approaches
actually complement each other. We give a number of concrete examples of
increasing complexity, including the set of formal and informal statements
derivable in each case, to substantiate our claim.
Formal and informal meaning from documents through skeleton
sentences
Complementing formal tag-set descriptions with intertextual
semantics and vice-versa
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August 11 - 14, 2009
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