This paper describes the continuation of a project that aims at establishing an interoperable annotation schema for quantification phenomena as part of the ISO suite of standards for semantic annotation, known as the Semantic Annotation Framework. After a break, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the project was relaunched in early 2022 with a second working draft of an annotation scheme, which is discussed in this paper. Keywords: semantic annotation, quantification, interoperability, annotation schema, ISO standard

This paper presents a French version of the FraCaS test suite. This test suite, originally written in English, contains problems illustrating semantic inference in natural language. We describe linguistic choices we had to make when translating the FraCaS test suite in French, and discuss some of the issues that were raised by the translation. We also report an experiment we ran in order to test both the translation and the logical semantics underlying the problems of the test suite. This provides a way of checking formal semanticists’ hypotheses against actual semantic capacity of speakers (in the present case, French speakers), and allow us to compare the results we obtained with the ones of similar experiments that have been conducted for other languages.

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Recent discussions of grammatical architectures have distinguished two competing approaches to the syntax-semantics interface: syntactocentrism, wherein syntactic structures are mapped or transduced to semantics (and phonology), vs. parallelism, wher

We describe an application of controlled text authoring to biological experiment reports. This work is the result of a collaboration between a computational linguistics team and biologists specializing in protein production studies. We start by presenting our semantically-controlled authoring system, MDA (Multilingual Document Authoring), an expressive model for specifying well-formedness conditions both at the level of the document content and at the level of its textual realization. We then discuss the practical needs of experiment documentation in bioengineering. We go on to describe the prototype we have developed for this application domain, along with a preliminary evaluation. Finally we discuss a promising new idea emerging from the experimentation but which seems of wider applicability: how the authoring system represents a step towards integrating the formalization of an experimental protocol with its associated textual documentation.