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  <Title>SAUMER: SENTENCE ANALYSIS USING METARULES</Title>
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1. INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The SAUMER system allows the user to specify a grammar for a natural language using rules and metarules rhts grammar can then be uC/,ed ~ obtain a semantic interpretation of an input sentence. The SAUMER Specification language (SSL). which L~ a variation of definite clause gr~s (DCGs) (Pereira and Warren.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> 1980). captures some ,ff the festures of generaIPS.ted phrase structure grammar5 (GPSGs) (Gazdax, 1981) (GaTrl~r and Pullum. 1982). like rule schemata, rule transformations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> structured categories, slash categories, and the correspondence between syntactic and semantic rules. The semantics currently used in the system are based on Schubert and Pelletiers description in (Schubert and Pelletier. 1982). - which adapts the intetmional logic intervretation associated with GPSGs. into a more conventional logical notation</Paragraph>
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