Although the completion of the manuscript admittedly antedates much of the ongoing work in the field (e.g., the application of deep linguistic processing in the analysis of biomedical and other scientific texts), a comparison of DBS to wide-coverage systems such as the LinGO English Resource Grammar (Copestake and Flickinger 2000) (including also related activities such as the development of Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics [Copestake 2007]) or Alpino (analysis of unrestricted Dutch texts [Bouma, van Noord, and Malouf 2001]) would have been a welcome complementation to the presentation of DBS in the book.
as such an underlying format, it can be used to describe linguistic as well as extralinguistic content (to represent utterances and the context, respectively).