Traditional accounts of the semantic interpretation of quantified phrases and its interaction with reference and ellipsis have relied on formal manipulations of logical forms (qua...
A top-down query processing method for first order deductive databases under the disjunctive well-founded semantics (DWFS) is presented. The method is based upon a characterisation...
Natural language processing technologies offer ease-of-use of computers for average users, and easeof-access to on-line information. Natural language, however, is complex, and the...
We describe a generative probabilistic model of natural language, which we call HBG, that takes advantage of detailed linguistic information to resolve ambiguity. HBG incorporates...
Ezra Black, Frederick Jelinek, John D. Lafferty, D...