From All Possible Worlds to Small Worlds: A Story of How We Started and Where We Will Go Doing Semantics
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This is a short story of how we have evolved over the last 40 years, doing semantics. It could partially overlap with a history of PACLIC which is commemorating the 25th year or a quarter of a century of its founding. The story tells how we semanticists of natural language moved from all possible worlds to small worlds, now living in and with a tiny mobile world.
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