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Things Are Not Always Equal

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2003)

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In this paper we discuss the use of subsumption as device to model linguistic generalizations. Constraint-based linguistic frameworks make ample use of equality relations but, although equality is nothing but two-way subsumption, subsumption itself has not been used much, except as a metagrammatical device in the HPSG type hierarchy. Here we investigate two cases where subsumption is a useful device to model syntactic phenomena.

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    Ronald M. Kaplan & Annie Zaenen

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    Alexander Gelbukh

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Kaplan, R.M., Zaenen, A. (2003). Things Are Not Always Equal. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36456-0_2

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