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In this paper we propose a representation for what we have called an interpretation of a text. We base this representation on TMR (Text Meaning Representation), an interlingual representation developed for Machine Translation purposes. A TMR consists of a complex feature-value structure, with the feature names and filler values drawn from an ontology, in this case, ONTOS, developed concurrently with TMR. We suggest on the basis of previous work, that a representation of an interpretation of a text must build on a TMR structure for the text in several ways: (1) by the inclusion of additional required features and feature values (which may themselves be complex feature structures); (2) by pragmatically filling in empty slots in the TMR structure itself; and (3) by supporting the connections between feature values by including, as part of the TMR itself, the chains of inferencing that link various parts of the structure.
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Helmreich, S., Farwell, D. (2000). Text Meaning Representation as a Basis for Representation of Text Interpretation. In: White, J.S. (eds) Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future. AMTA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39965-8_18
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