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"text": "Example (2) still retains five readings (Are there two or even more books? are there one, two, or more than two sea-battles?). An underspecified representation should not be committed to any of these readings, but it should specify that \"a book\" has narrow scope with respect to the conjunction. Furthermore, an approach to underspecification and ellipsis resolution should make clear why this representation is to be constructed for the discourse (2). While QLF fails the first requirement (a single representation), CLLS fails the second (triggers for construction).",
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"text": "Representation Structures Reyle (1993) proposes a formalism for underspecification of scope ambiguity. The underspecified representations are called Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures (UDRSs). Completely specified UDRSs correspond to the Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) of Kamp and Reyle (1993) . A UDRS is a triple consisting of a top label, a set of labelled conditions or discourse referents, and a set of subordination constraints. A UDRS is (partially) disambiguated by adding subordination constraints. A UDRS must, however, always comply with the following wellformedness conditions: (1) It does not contain cycles (subordination is a partial order). (2) No label is subordinated to two labels which are siblings, i.e. part of the same complex condition (subordination is a tree order). Figure 1 shows the UDRS for sentence 4 in formal and graph representation.",
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