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  <Title>Compositional Semantics in Verbmobil</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="135" end_page="135" type="concl">
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have discussed the implementation of a compositional semantics in the Verbmobil speech-to-speech translation system. The notions of monotonicity and underspecification were discussed and LUD, a description language for underspecifled discourse representation structures was introduced. As shown in Section 3, the LUD description language has a well-defined interpretation in DRT. Differently from Reyle's UDRSs, however, LUD assigns labels to the minimal semantic element and may also be interpreted in other object languages than DRT.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The key part of the paper, Section 5, showed how the linguistically sound LUD formalism has been properly implemented in a (near) real-time system. The implementation in Siemens' TUG grammar formalism was described together with the architecture of the entire semantic processing module of Verbmobil and its current coverage.</Paragraph>
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