A Formal Semantics for Generating and Editing Plurals

We present a formal semantics for an objectoriented formalism which allows for the representation of plural objects (such as `Three N', `Most of the N', `Some N',...). The semantics is given in terms of a mapping to a variant of Discourse Representation Theory. It is motivated by its suitability for natural language generation and interactive editing of the representations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Paul Piwek
• Keywords: COLING 2000, COLING 2008, Discourse Representation Theory, Formal Semantics, Objectoriented Formalism