A Finite-state Approach to Events in Natural Language Semantics
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Events in natural language semantics are characterized in terms of regular languages, each string in which can be regarded as a temporal sequence of observations. The usual regular constructs (concatenation, etc.) are supplemented with superposition, inducing a useful notion of entailment, distinct from that given by models of predicate logic.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Log. Comput.
دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004