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We seek to develop methods for making the meaning of markup explicit using notations like first-order predicate calculus. In the context of that work, a number of problems have arisen; this paper discusses ten of them, describing how we propose to solve them. Topics include: Logical predicates of variable arity; the form to be taken by inference rules; deictic reference to other parts of the document; property inheritance and how to override inherited values; distinguishing between unions of properties and overriding of properties; treatment of milestones; definition of the universe of discourse; definite descriptions; and the recording of uncertainty and responsibility.
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Sperberg-McQueen, C.M., Huitfeldt, C. (2011). Ten Problems in the Interpretation of XML Documents. In: Mehler, A., Kühnberger, KU., Lobin, H., Lüngen, H., Storrer, A., Witt, A. (eds) Modeling, Learning, and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 370. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22613-7_9
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