---
title: "Lean Semantic Interpretation"
authors:
  - "Martin Romacker"
  - "Udo Hahn"
  - "Katja Markert"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/124"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0124.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1999
pages: "868-874"
track: "Natural Language Processing"
keywords:
---

# Lean Semantic Interpretation

Martin Romacker, Udo Hahn, Katja Markert

*Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 868-874.

## Abstract

We introduce two abstraction mechanisms for streamlining the process of semantic interpretation. Configurational descriptions of dependency graphs increase the linguistic generality of interpretation schemata, while interfacing them to lexical and conceptual inheritance hierarchies reduces the amount and complexity of semantic specifications.