[Attempto] Every call C is urgent or C is important. -- minor bug

[Ruesche-Jr, Daniel H]

Joshua,

I read your point but you seem to trivialize the efforts of attempto and the challenges it brings.  It appears perhaps you need some first hand experience at actually writing software and perhaps some training at being constructive instead of merely stating your desires.  Feel free to write your own application with the capabilities you desire.  Or you can request nicely of gracious folks like attempto who are providing their expertise free of charge.  Remember if this all was easy someone would have done it a long time ago attempto is pioneering this field.  Patience...

Sincerely,
Daniel Ruesche 


-----Original Message-----
From: attempto-bounces at lists.ifi.uzh.ch [mailto:attempto-bounces at lists.ifi.uzh.ch] On Behalf Of Joshua TAYLOR
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:11 AM
To: attempto
Subject: Re: [Attempto] Every call C is urgent or C is important. -- minor bug

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Jean-Marc Vanel
<jeanmarc.vanel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/6/29 Norbert E. Fuchs <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch>:
> ...
>> Your example
>>
>>> Every call C is urgent or C is important.
>>
>> is parsed as the disjunction of two sentences
>>
>> {Every call C is urgent} or {C is important}.
>>
>> and the DRS generated reflects this correctly. The variable C defined within the first sentence cannot be referred to anaphorically. Thus the second occurrence of C defines a new variable. See ACE 6.6 Interpretation Rules, section 8.3 "A noun phrase antecedent other than a proper name is not accessible if it occurs in a universally quantified or if-then-sentence."
>
> There is no doubt that the behavior is specified in the documentation,
> and it 's good like this :) .
> But the question, beyond this example that indeed could be expressed
> better otherwise, is the "naturalness" of the interpretation by ACE. I
> mean, every human reader (especially mathematically trained) will
> consider that the repeated variable C is the same thing along the
> sentence. Since ACE is defined as a "subset of standard English" , it
> has to meet such human reader's expectations.

There are many utterance whose meaning every human reader can
determine, but it doesn't mean that they're all standard English.  I
think the case at hand is just such an example.

-- 
Joshua Taylor, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tayloj/
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