Computing adverbial quantifier domains
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This paper describes a method for computing the domain of quantification of an adverbially quantified sentence. This method relies on the accommodation of presuppositions in the scope of a quantificational adverb and on the resolution of the domain in context. This paper also describes a computational system for processing such sentences based on this method.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001