@inproceedings{haddad-yaseen-2003-towards,
    title = "Towards semantic composition of {A}rabic: a {\ensuremath{\lambda}}-{DRT} based approach",
    author = "Haddad, Bassam  and
      Yaseen, Mustafa",
    booktitle = "Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic languages: issues and approaches",
    month = sep # " 23-27",
    year = "2003",
    address = "New Orleans, USA",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2003.mtsummit-semit.8/",
    abstract = "This paper addresses issues related to employing logic-based semantic composition as a meaning representation for Arabic within a unification-based syntax-semantics interface. Since semantic representation has to be compositional on the level of semantic processing {\ensuremath{\lambda}}-calculus based on Discourse Representation Theory can be utilized as a helpful and practical technique for the semantic construction of ARABIC in Arabic understanding systems. As ARABIC computational linguistics is also short of feature-based compositional syntax-semantics interfaces we hope that this approach might be a further motivation to redirect research to modern semantic construction techniques for developing an adequate model of semantic processing for Arabic and even no existing formal theory is capable to provide a complete and consistent account of all phenomena involved in Arabic semantic processing."
}