Compositional Semantics Grounded in Commonsense Metaphysics
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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 in ordinary language. Assuming the existence of 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/0708.2303 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007