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[xtag-meeting]: this week: no break for spring break




We will meet this week at the usual place and time.

Place: IRCS Fishbowl
Time: 10:30am, Thursday, 03/14/2002

Benjamin Newman will be talking about a few semantic 
issues he'd like cleared up before he proceeds further 
with the implementation. He will also present the
mechanisms behind his implementation and the current 
status.

* relative-time information, modal tenses

	"Bob had gone."			"Bob will have gone."

	Bob(x)				Bob(x)
	go(x,e1)			go(x,e1)
	before(e1,e2)			before(e1,e2)
	before(e2,e0)			after(e2,e0)

* determiners, as quantifiers?

	"The dog ran."			"Most of the dogs ran."

	dog(x)				dogs(x)
	the(y,x)			the(y,x)
	ran(y,e1)			most(z,y)
	before(e1,e0)			ran(z,e1)
					before(e1,e0)

* individual variables as handles for PP arguments

	"Bob put the book on the table."

	Bob(w)
	book(p)
	the(x,p)
	table(q)
	the(y,q)
	on(z,y)
	put(w,x,z,e1)
	before(e1,e0)