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FSTTCS
1993
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Higher-Order and Semantic Unification
Abstract. We provide a complete system of transformation rules for semantic unification with respect to theories defined by convergent rewrite systems. We show that this standard u...
Nachum Dershowitz, Subrata Mitra
ACL
1996
13 years 8 months ago
Higher-Order Coloured Unification and Natural Language Semantics
In this paper, we show that Higher-Order Coloured Unification - a form of unification developed for automated theorem proving - provides a general theory for modeling the interfac...
Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase
COLING
1996
13 years 8 months ago
Focus and Higher-Order Unification
2 Focus theory Pulman has shown that Higher-Order Unifcation (HOU) can be used to model the interpretation of focus. In this paper, we extend the unification based approach to case...
Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Nominal Unification from a Higher-Order Perspective
Abstract. Nominal Logic is an extension of first-order logic with equality, name-binding, name-swapping, and freshness of names. Contrarily to higher-order logic, bound variables a...
Jordi Levy, Mateu Villaret
LICS
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
A Higher-Order Distributed Calculus with Name Creation
—This paper introduces HOpiPn, the higher-order pi-calculus with passivation and name creation, and develops an equivalence theory for this calculus. Passivation [Schmitt and Ste...
Adrien Piérard, Eijiro Sumii