A Plea for Information Structure as a Part of Meaning Representation

Eva Hajicova


Abstract
The view that the representation of information structure (IS) should be a part of (any type of) representation of meaning is based on the fact that IS is a semantically relevant phenomenon. In the contribution, three arguments supporting this view are briefly summarized, namely, the relation of IS to the interpretation of negation and presupposition, the relevance of IS to the understanding of discourse connectivity and for the establishment and interpretation of coreference relations. Afterwards, possible integration of the description of the main ingredient of IS into a meaning representation is illustrated.
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W19-3307
Volume:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Nianwen Xue, William Croft, Jan Hajic, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephan Oepen, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovksy
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DMR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
66–72
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3307
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3307
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Eva Hajicova. 2019. A Plea for Information Structure as a Part of Meaning Representation. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 66–72, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Plea for Information Structure as a Part of Meaning Representation (Hajicova, DMR 2019)
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