Anaphora and Logical Form: On Formal Meaning Representations for Natural Language
Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 121-130.
Abstract
We argue, on general grounds, in favor of formal meaning representations for natural language. We then adopt, as a "forcing function" for the adequacy of such a representation, the problem of identifying the possible antecedents of anaphoric expressions. This suggests certain structural properties of a representation which facilitate the identification of possible antecedents. Given an appropriate representation language with such properties, it is then possible to deal with a surprisingly rich class of anaphora.
@inproceedings{ijcai1977p25,
title = {Anaphora and Logical Form: On Formal Meaning Representations for Natural Language},
author = {Webber, Bonnie L. and Reiter, Raymond},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-77}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Raj Reddy},
pages = {121--130},
year = {1977},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/25},
}
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