Type Description Language and other aspects of DELPH-IN Joint Reference Formalism
Case Sensitivity
Case Sensitive
- Things inside quotes (NB: strings passed from tfs world into MRS will be treated as case insensitive in MRS processing)
Case Insensitive
- Everything in tdl not inside of quotes.
- Lexicon look-up.
- Proper names?
- Acronyms?
- .. approach these with token-mapping (preserve the info, and then downcase anyway)
Unknown
- Orthographic subrules (agree: case sensitive, ACE: [intended] case insensitive)
Notes: Arguments for case insensitive include shouting (call caps); Arguments for case sensitive include the use of upper case vowels in vowel harmony languages (linguistic representations, not orthography)