It's papers, papers and guess what? - Papers.

Hey, haven't written much in the last 5 days.
They were all about reading papers concerning NLP.

Next thing - I will tell you about our approach and what the difference to others is so far (Thematic roles vs. well-known NLP approaches).
After that I might just explain our graph theory approach and where the challenge lies.

The other questions are:

• What's the state of the art?
• Where are the gaps?
• Which are the big questions?
• Where do we have to narrow our field (since we do not claim to have a solution which is universal)?

All these questions have to be cumulated and casted into papers. And once you have a bunch of papers you align 'em and make your dissertation out of those.
Well, it's note quite as easy, but that is the approximate approach.

More infos to come these days. Have a good one.