[Attempto] Release of APE 6.5-090616

[Tobias Kuhn]

Hi everyone,

A new release of the Attempto Parsing Engine (APE) is available for download (version 6.5-090616):

     http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/downloads/

The changes are the following:

* Two bugs concerning the XML representation of the DRS have been fixed:
       o The contents of the XML attributes were not properly escaped.
       o For some sentences, the creation of the XML representation failed altogether.
* There is a new internal module that splits a DRS into a list of smaller DRSs. This makes the
   creation of several output types more efficient and more robust:
       o For the "paraphrase" output, APE splits now the DRS, verbalizes each of the resulting
         smaller DRSs in NP ACE and if that fails then in Core ACE, and finally merges the
         verbalizations and presents them as separate paragraphs. Note that the output is a
         mixture of Core ACE and NP ACE. Paragraphs that could not be paraphrased appear as a
         comment containing three dots "...".
       o For the "paraphrase1" output, APE also uses DRS splitting, but the output is always Core
         ACE. The "paraphrase2" output is unchanged.
       o The ACE to OWL translation uses now DRS splitting, translates each of the resulting
         smaller DRSs into OWL, and finally merges these OWL axioms. This has the consequence
         that there are fewer anonymous individuals in some cases.


Tobias