--- abstract: |- An attractive way to model the relation between an underspecified syntactic representation and its completions is to let the underspecified representation correspond to a logical description and the completions to the models of that description. This approach, which underlies the Description Theory of (Marcus et al. 1983) has been integrated in (Vijay-Shanker 1992) with a pure unification approach to Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars (Joshi et al.\ 1975, Schabes 1990). We generalize Description Theory by integrating semantic information, that is, we propose to tackle both syntactic and semantic underspecification using descriptions. altloc: - http://let.uvt.nl/general/people/rmuskens/pubs/tagplus.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks confloc: 'Philadelphia, PA' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Muskens given: Reinhard honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Krahmer given: Emiel honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1998 date_type: published datestamp: 2006-08-06 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/50/45 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5045 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5045/1/tagplus.pdf|/style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/5045/2/tagplus.ps full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:33 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 112-115 pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 14 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:06:37 subjects: - ling-comput - ling-sem - ling-syntax succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Description Theory, LTAGs and Underspecified Semantics' type: confpaper userid: 6111 volume: ~