Linguistic Representations and Text Analysis
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چکیده
Understanding a text, whether by a human being or by a computer, implies that units of meanings be identified in the text and that rules composing these units and the corresponding meaning units provide the complete meaning of the text. Such a statement raises many fundamental questions we shall not be concerned with (e.g. What is meaning?). We will limit ourselves to lexical and grammatical procedures that lead to the recognition of patterns of words on which the process of understanding is based.
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