1 Definition
The digital representation of an input text as syntactic and semantic information.
2 Functional Requirements
Meaning is used to extract information from text to help the Entity Dialogue Processing AIM to produce a response.
3 Syntax
https://schemas.mpai.community/MMC/V2.2/Meaning.json
4 Semantics
| Label | Size | Description |
| Header | N1 Bytes | |
| · Standard | 9 Bytes | The characters “MMC-TXD-V” |
| · Version | N2 Bytes | Major version – 1 or 2 characters |
| · Dot-separator | 1 Byte | The character “.” |
| · Subversion | N3 Bytes | Minor version – 1 or 2 characters |
| MInstanceID | N4 Bytes | Identifier of M-Instance. |
| TextDescriptors | N5 Bytes | Identifier of the AV Object. |
| · POS_tagging | N6 Bytes | Results of POS (Part of Speech, e.g., noun, verb, etc.) tagging including information on the question’s POS tagging set and tagged results. |
| · NE_tagging | N7 Bytes | Results of NE (Named Entity e.g., Person, Organisation, Fruit, etc.) tagging results including information on the question’s tagging set and tagged results. |
| · Dependency_tagging | N8 Bytes | Results of dependency (structure of the sentence, e.g., subject, object, head of relation, etc.) tagging including information on the question’s dependency tagging set and tagged results. |
| · SRL_tagging | N9 Bytes | Results of SRL (Semantic Role Labelling) tagging results including information on the question’s SRL tagging set and tagged results. SRL indicates the semantic structure of the sentence such as agent, location, patient role, etc. |
| DesrMetadata | N10 Bytes | Descriptive Metadata |
5 Data Formats
Text Descriptors as Meaning specified above are a format for a specific type of Descriptors.
6 To Respondents
Respondents are invited to:
- Comment or elaborate on the MPAI specification of Text Descriptors as Meaning.
- Propose extensions to it or a new specification.
