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On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:19:07PM -0000, And Rosta wrote:
> Jordan:
[...]
> > > But the current parser doesn't do things like anaphora, logical
> > > structure, and so forth, does it? It ignores semantics, and simply
> > > pronounces whether the string is syntactically well-formed or
> > > not
> >
> > What's your point?
>
> My point is that I don't see why the parser would have to inspect
> which terminators were specified instead of elided and then examine
> which token it was so it can decide if ko'a changed or whatever
> other foo And wants to pack into the things. It seems to me that
> allowing multiple membership in a terminator selmaho does not
> oblige the parser to take on the task of constructing logical
> form.
>
> If you weren't saying otherwise, then I don't know why you said
> "more accurately, it would suck for the parser to...". What was
> the relevance of saying that?
Ok, you apparently didn't grok the subtext there: Regardless of
what the current parsers do WRT to ko'a references and such things,
we shouldn't limit things for future parsers which do more work
(such as identifying the antecedent of pro-sumti).
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Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
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