Quantification and Implication in Semantic Calendar Expressions Represented with Finite-State Transducers

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  • Jyrki Niemi
  • Kimmo Koskenniemi
چکیده

This paper elaborates a model for representing semantic calendar expressions (SCEs), which correspond to the intensional meanings of natural-language calendar phrases. The model uses finite-state transducers (FSTs) to mark denoted periods of time on a set of timelines represented as a finite-state automaton (FSA). We present a treatment of SCEs corresponding to quantified phrases (any Monday; every May) and an implication operation for requiring the denotation of one SCE to contain completely that of another.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008