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 can be treated as case insensitive in MRS processing (i.e. as predicate symbols, but not CARGs)
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)
Doc Strings
TDL types allow a doc string:
n_-_c_le := n_intr_lex_entry & "Intransitive count noun (icn) <ex>The dog barked. <nex>Much dog bark.".