jboske whitepapers

These are position statements, summaries, and manifestoes which emerge out of discussions on jboske. They are purely speculative, and are going on here only because the discussions on jboske require a component which is indexed differently than mail messages sorted by date and named only by subject header.

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gadri

• general
  • Towards a complete gadri picture, by xod

• • Nick Nicholas' jbocre: gadri report, aug 2003.
  • pc's Simple Gadri Solution

• XS
  • XS gadri proposal (written by xorxes) XS means "Excellent Solution". (Or "Xorxes's Solution" -- And.)

• • jbocre: XS gadri proposal: And's version (written by And)
  • jbocre: XXS: Extended XS proposal, by And

• • • Some discussions arising from XXS
  • Kinds, by And

• • jbocre: Why the XS is better than the 2004 status quo, by xod

anaphora

• interaction of gadri and anaphora
  • XS And anaphora, by And

• • xorxes on requantification
• On unglorkative anaphora (by And)

scope

• jbocre: Discussion: Three dogs attacked four men
• scope of selbri tcita

sumti qualifiers

• Rant against sumti qualifiers, by And
• sumti qualifiers

UI

• scope of UIs
• jbocre: UI scope - Take 2

• UI types

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Progress

This is an indication of where the xorxes--And discussions have got to.

gadri

Done:

• Almost complete gadri system

To do:

• Decision about function of lVi
• Decisions about ME & LAhE arising secondarily from the gadri system proposals

scope

Done:

• Scope rules

To do:

• Propose forms for two new BAhE

anaphora

In progress:

• Rules for sumti anaphora interpretation worked out but still under discussion
• Antecedent-targeting rules for CLL anaphora proposed & under discussion

• New comprehensive scheme for antecedent targeting proposed & under discussion

To do:

• Rules for bridi anaphora interpretation (already discussed briefly on phpbb)

UI

Done:

• Logical types of UI
• UI and scope provisionally

To do:

• Classifying members of UI into the logical types