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"text": "It was later recognized that in order to support some tasks, fully specifying certain aspects of a logic representation, such as quantifier scope, or reference resolution, is often not necessary. For example, for semantic translation, most ambiguities of quantifier scope can be carried over from the source language to the target language without being resolved. This led to the development of underspecified semantic representations (e.g. QLF, Alshawi and Crouch (1992) and MRS, Copestake et al (2005) ) which are easier to produce from text without contextual inference but which can be further specified as necessary for the task being performed.",
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"text": "Here we take a more direct route, starting from scratch by designing an underspecified semantic representation (Natural Logical Form, or NLF) that is purpose-built for statistical text-to-semantics mapping. An underspecified logic whose constructs are motivated by natural language and that is amenable to trainable direct semantic mapping from text without an intervening layer of syntactic representation. In contrast, the approach taken by (Zettlemoyer and Collins, 2005) , for example, maps into traditional logic via lambda expressions, and the approach taken by (Poon and Domingos, 2009) depends on an initial step of syntactic parsing.",
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