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COLING
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Focus and Higher-Order Unification
2 Focus theory Pulman has shown that Higher-Order Unifcation (HOU) can be used to model the interpretation of focus. In this paper, we extend the unification based approach to case...
Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Nominal Unification from a Higher-Order Perspective
Abstract. Nominal Logic is an extension of first-order logic with equality, name-binding, name-swapping, and freshness of names. Contrarily to higher-order logic, bound variables a...
Jordi Levy, Mateu Villaret
FSTTCS
1993
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Higher-Order and Semantic Unification
Abstract. We provide a complete system of transformation rules for semantic unification with respect to theories defined by convergent rewrite systems. We show that this standard u...
Nachum Dershowitz, Subrata Mitra
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Higher-Order Coloured Unification and Natural Language Semantics
In this paper, we show that Higher-Order Coloured Unification - a form of unification developed for automated theorem proving - provides a general theory for modeling the interfac...
Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase
CADE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Optimizing Higher-Order Pattern Unification
Abstract. We present an abstract view of existential variables in a dependently typed lambda-calculus based on modal type theory. This allows us to justify optimizations to pattern...
Brigitte Pientka, Frank Pfenning