Typical ways to realise this strategy are unscoped logical forms, neo-Davidsonian semantics, minimal recursion semantics, and similar formalisms.
a sentence like "I want a pepperoni pizza" might be represented as something like Approaches based in the linguistic tradition were dominant about 10 to 15 years ago, when they were used in major systems like Germany's Verbmobil (Wahlster, 2000) and SRI's Spoken Language Translator (Rayner et al., 2000).