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Dynamic Semantics and Underspecification

Christof Monz

In: H. Prade. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98). John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 201-202.

Most work on ambiguity in natural language focuses on the semantic representation of single ambiguous sentences. In this paper we present a dynamic semantics which gives a formal account of the behavior of ambiguous expressions occurring in a sequence of sentences. It is considered how partial disambiguation and dynamic updating can be interleaved to restrict ambiguity in an efficient way.

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research project(s): Computational Semantics and Theorem Proving
conference site: ECAI-98


BibTeX entry
@InProceedings{monz:98ecai,
  author =       {Monz, Christof},
  title =        {Dynamic Semantics and Underspecification},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the 13th European Conference 
                  on Artificial Intelligence {(ECAI'98)}},
  pages =        {201--202},
  year =         1998,
  editor =       {Prade, H.},
  publisher =    {John Wiley {\&} Sons}
}