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Yuri Faria edited this page Mar 23, 2021 · 3 revisions

DELPHIN-RDF is a plugin for pydelphin for representing textual based semantics as RDF graphs. Here we discuss how DELPH-IN formats can be represented in RDF. This can be seem as a continuation of some discussion started here and it creates the graphs which we use in making queries with WQL.

The pydelphin and rdflib libraries are required.

Background

Minimal Recursion Semantics

Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) is a framework for computational semantics. It has a flat compositional structure that allows underspecifiability and has computational tractability, also being easy to link elements of the semantic representation with the grammatical information. For more details about it, check the paper Minimal Recursion Semantics: An Introduction and the MRS reference.

Resource Description Framework

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information using graphs and it is intended to represent information on the Web that needs to be processed. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a primer which provide the basic knowledge required to effectively use RDF to the reader.

When using RDF data, we don't make assumptions about the resources represented. The way we represent semantic characteristic about resources in RDF is by defining vocabularies, which are written in Resource Description Framework Language (RDFS), which is described here

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