/************************************************************************* name: drs2fol.pl (Volume 2, Chapter 1) version: June 8, 1998 description: From DRSs to First-Order Logic authors: Patrick Blackburn & Johan Bos *************************************************************************/ :- module(drs2fol,[drs2fol/2]). :- ensure_loaded(comsemOperators). :- use_module(comsemPredicates,[compose/3,basicFormula/1]). /*======================================================================== Translation Predicates ---------------------- drs2fol(+Drs,?F) converts DRS to formula F. DRS is a term drs(Dom,Cond), where Dom is a list of discourse referents, and Cond is a non empty list of DRS-conditions. ========================================================================*/ drs2fol(drs([],[Cond]),Formula):- cond2fol(Cond,Formula). drs2fol(drs([],[Cond1,Cond2|Conds]),Formula1 & Formula2):- cond2fol(Cond1,Formula1), drs2fol(drs([],[Cond2|Conds]),Formula2). drs2fol(drs([X|Referents],Conds),exists(X,Formula)):- drs2fol(drs(Referents,Conds),Formula). cond2fol(~ Drs, ~ Formula):- drs2fol(Drs,Formula). cond2fol(Drs1 v Drs2, Formula1 v Formula2):- drs2fol(Drs1,Formula1), drs2fol(Drs2,Formula2). cond2fol(drs([],Conds) > Drs2, Formula1 > Formula2):- drs2fol(drs([],Conds),Formula1), drs2fol(Drs2,Formula2). cond2fol(drs([X|Referents],Conds) > Drs2, forall(X,Formula)):- cond2fol(drs(Referents,Conds) > Drs2,Formula). /* cond2fol(question(X,drs([],Conds),Drs2),exists(X,(Formula1 & Formula2))):- drs2fol(drs([],Conds),Formula1), drs2fol(Drs2,Formula2). cond2fol(question(Q,drs([X|Referents],Conds),Drs2), exists(X,Formula)):- cond2fol(question(Q,drs(Referents,Conds),Drs2),Formula). */ cond2fol(question(Q,B1,B2),Condition2):- B1 = drs(D,C), Condition1 = (Field1 v drs([],[Field2 v Field3])), Field1 = drs([X],[allpos(X),drs([Q|D],C) > B2]), Field2 = drs([X],[allneg(X),drs([Q|D],C) > drs([],[~B2])]), Field3 = drs([X,Q|D],[posneg(X),~drs([],[~B2]),~drs([],[~drs([Q|D],[~B2|C])])|C]), cond2fol(Condition1,Condition2). cond2fol(BasicCondition,AtomicFormula):- basicFormula(BasicCondition), AtomicFormula=BasicCondition.