fracas project computational semantics deliverables www home page would like announce world wide web page fracas project url http www cogsci ed ac uk fracas fracas framework computational semantics twoyear lre funded project studying theories semantic interpretation application natural language processing participants project cwi amsterdam sri cambridge universities edinburgh saarbruecken stuttgart deliverables produced first year project available www site ftp ftp cogsci ed ac uk directory pub fracas sending mail fracas cogsci ed ac uk list deliverables enclosed www site includes pointers deliverables www pages participating sites projects computational semantics sites involved research natural language processing information fracas project contact fracas project administrator university edinburgh centre cognitive science 2 buccleuch place edinburgh eh8 9lw scotland uk fracas cogsci ed ac uk members fracas consortium recent fracas deliverables deliverable d7 december 1994 harmonizing approaches preliminary work towards harmonizing approaches semantics studied fracas led one hand compilation list basic linguistic phenomena semantic theory account list used arrive indepth comparison among semantic theories study presented deliverable 8 hand identified set basic semantic tools generalised quantifiers theory abstraction theories discussion make use although often tools interpreted different ways theories discussion e g although theories notion abstraction actual properties abstraction operation theories differ widely list basic linguistic phenomena set basic semantic tools discussed deliverable also address issue whether problems important technical point view also important point view natural language processing applications identifying set forms natural language use one could reasonably expect nlp system deal verifying whether technically challenging data encountered forms text deliverable d8 december 1994 describing approaches deliverable contains detailed discussion semantic tools used five semantic theories studied fracas project discourse representation theory update dynamic logic monotonic semantics property theory situation theory together presentation syntax semantics interface adopted theory deliverable d9 december 1994 state art computational semantics evaluating descriptive capabilities semantic theories deliverable discuss analyses linguistic phenomena discussed deliverables d7 proposed five semantic theories studied fracas project presented deliverable d8 deliverable d10 january 1994 evaluating state art deliverable discuss themes interface semantics underspecification contextual reasoning inference lexical semantics present brief survey implemented systems based least part approaches semantics described deliverables d8 d9 order ground discussion various themes approaches deliverable include annotated text eurodisney illustrates range variety semantic phenomena found even simplest newspaper article classify phenomena illustrated text give idea within state art areas still require good deal research final section amplifies latter theme trying summarise future directions computational semantics might need take order achieve goals sketched earlier document