3.1 Building Meaning Representations

The question we are concerned with now is ``Given a sentence of English, how do we get to its meaning representation?''. For our aims, this question is yet far too general, so let's rather ask a more specific one: ``Is there a systematic way of translating such simple sentences as ``John loves Mary'' and ``A woman walks'' into first-order logic?'' The important point here is the demand of being systematic. In this section, we will discuss why this is so important.



Aljoscha Burchardt, Stephan Walter, Alexander Koller, Michael Kohlhase, Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos
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