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ACL
1989
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A General Computational Treatment of the Comparative
We present a general treatment of the comparative that is based on more basic linguistic elements so that the underlying system can be effectively utilized: in the syntactic analy...
Carol Friedman
ACL
1992
13 years 10 months ago
Connection Relations and Quantifier Scope
A formalism will be presented in this paper which makes it possible to realise the idea of assigning only one scope-ambiguous representation to a sentence that is ambiguous with r...
Longin Jan Latecki
ACL
1992
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Prosodic Aids to Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Spoken English
Prosody can be useful in resolving certain lexical and structural ambiguities in spoken English. In this paper we present some results of employing two types of prosodic informati...
Chris D. Rowles, Xiuming Huang
ACL
1990
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A Compositional Semantics for Focusing Subjuncts
A compositional semantics for focusing subjuncts-words such as only, even, and also--is developed from Rooth's theory of association with focus. By adapting the theory so tha...
Daniel Lyons, Graeme Hirst
ACL
1990
13 years 10 months ago
The Computational Complexity of Avoiding Conversational Implicatures
Referring expressions and other object descriptions should be maximal under the Local Brevity, No Unnecessary Components, and Lexical Preference preference rules; otherwise, they ...
Ehud Reiter