A first order semantic approach to adjectival inference
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چکیده
As shown in the formal semantics literature, adjectives can display very different inferential patterns depending on whether they are intersective, privative, subsective or plain non subsective. Moreover, many of these classes are often described using second order constructs. In this paper, we adopt Hobbs’s ontologically promiscuous approach and present a first order treatment of adjective semantics which opens the way for a sophisticated treatment of adjectival inference. The approach was implemented and tested using first order automated reasoners.
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