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ACL
1992
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Would I Lie to You? Modelling Misrepresentation and Context in Dialogue
In this paper we discuss a mechanism for modifying context in a tutorial dialogue. The context mechanism imposes a pedagogically motivated misrepresentation (PMM) on a dialogue to...
Carl Gutwin, Gordon I. McCalla
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ACL
1990
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A Simplified Theory of Tense Representations and Constraints on their Composition
This paper proposes a set of representations for tenses and a set of constraints on how they can be combined in adjunct clauses. The semantics we propose explains the possible mea...
Michael R. Brent
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ACL
1990
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Solving Thematic Divergences in Machine Translation
Though most translation systems have some mechanism for translating certain types of divergent predicate-argument structures, they do not provide a genera] procedure that takes ad...
Bonnie J. Dorr
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ACL
1990
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Normal State Implicature
In the right situation, a speaker can use an unqualified indefinite description without being misunderstood. This use of language, normal slate implicature, is a kind of conversat...
Nancy Green
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ACL
1990
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Designer Definites in Logical Form
In this paper, we represent singular definite noun phrases as functions in logical form. This representation is designed to model the behaviors of both anaphoric and non-anaphoric...
Mary P. Harper