The resolution of quantificational ambiguity in the TENDUM system

H.C. Bunt

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The resolution of quantificational ambiguity in the TENDUM system

H.C. Bunt

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A method is described for handling the ambiguity and vagueness that is often found in quantifications - the semantically complex relations between nominal and verbal constituents. In natural language certain aspects of quantification are often left open; it is argued that the analysis of quantification in a model-theoretic framework should use semantic representation in which this may also be done. This paper shows a form for such a representation and how "ambiguous" representations are used in an elegant and efficient procedure for semantic analysis, incorporated in the TENDUM dialogue system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACL '84 : Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Place of Publication	Morristown
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/980491.980519
Publication status	Published - 1984
Externally published	Yes

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The resolution of quantificational ambiguity in the TENDUM system. / Bunt, H.C.
ACL '84 : Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. Morristown: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1984.

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