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International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems

ISMIS 2006: Foundations of Intelligent Systems pp 550–559Cite as

Dependency Tree Semantics

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This paper presents Dependency Tree Semantics (DTS), an underspecified logic for representing quantifier scope ambiguities. DTS features a direct interface with a Dependency grammar, an easy management of partial disambiguations and the ability to represent branching quantifier readings. This paper focuses on the syntax of DTS, while does not take into account the model-theoretic interpretation of its well-formed structures.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitá di Torino, Italy

    Leonardo Lesmo & Livio Robaldo

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari,  

    Floriana Esposito

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, NC 28223, Charlotte, USA

    Zbigniew W. Raś

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Donato Malerba

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italia

    Giovanni Semeraro

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Lesmo, L., Robaldo, L. (2006). Dependency Tree Semantics. In: Esposito, F., Raś, Z.W., Malerba, D., Semeraro, G. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11875604_62

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