The compositional semantics of QuantML annotations

Harry Bunt


Abstract
This paper discusses some issues in the semantic annotation of quantification phenomena in general, and in particular in the markup language QuantML, which has been proposed to form part of an ISO standard annotation scheme for quantification in natural language data. QuantML annotations have been claimed to have a compositional semantic interpretation, but the formal specification of QuantML in the official ISO documentation does not provide sufficient detail to judge this. This paper aims to fill this gap.
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2023.isa-1.8
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Proceedings of the 19th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantics (ISA-19)
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June
Year:
2023
Address:
Nancy, France
Editor:
Harry Bunt
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ISA | WS
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SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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56–65
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.isa-1.8
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Harry Bunt. 2023. The compositional semantics of QuantML annotations. In Proceedings of the 19th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantics (ISA-19), pages 56–65, Nancy, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The compositional semantics of QuantML annotations (Bunt, ISA-WS 2023)
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