A Note on Ontology and Ordinary Language
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چکیده
We argue for a compositional semantics grounded in a strongly typed ontology that reflects our commonsense view of the world and the way we talk about it. Assuming such a structure we show that the semantics of various natural language phenomena may become nearly trivial.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/0704.3886 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007