A Semantic Annotation Scheme for Quantification

Harry Bunt


Abstract
This paper describes in brief the proposal called ‘QuantML’ which was accepted by the International Organisation for Standards (ISO) last February as a starting point for developing a standard for the interoperable annotation of quantification phenomena in natural language, as part of the ISO 24617 Semantic Annotation Framework. The proposal, firmly rooted in the theory of generalised quantifiers, neo-Davidsonian semantics, and DRT, covers a wide range of quantification phenomena. The QuantML scheme consists of (1) an abstract syntax which defines ‘annotation structures’ as triples and other set-theoretic constructs; (b) a compositional semantics of annotation structures; (3) an XML representation of annotation structures.
Anthology ID:
W19-0403
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers
Month:
May
Year:
2019
Address:
Gothenburg, Sweden
Editors:
Simon Dobnik, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Vera Demberg
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IWCS
SIG:
SIGSEM
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
31–42
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-0403
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-0403
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Harry Bunt. 2019. A Semantic Annotation Scheme for Quantification. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers, pages 31–42, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Semantic Annotation Scheme for Quantification (Bunt, IWCS 2019)
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