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Logic—Based Choice of Projective Terms

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Lexical choice is the problem of determining what words to use for the concepts in the domain representation. In this paper, we offer a model of the choice of projective terms such as vor, davor, vorn etc. that is based on abductive reasoning. After a motivation for the need to treat these lexical items as candidates for lexical choice, we outline the semantic and pragmatic conditions for their use.We present an abductive proof method that allows us to collect these conditions. Sets of collected conditions can be mapped unambiguously to corresponding projective items.

This research was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. University of Heidelberg, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Karlstr. 2, D—69117, Heidelberg

    Ralf Klabunde

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  1. Institut für Informatik III, Universität Bonn, Römerstraße 164, D-53117, Bonn, Germany

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  2. GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Schloß Birlinghoven, D-53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Thomas Cristaller

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Klabunde, R. (1999). Logic—Based Choice of Projective Terms. In: Burgard, W., Cremers, A.B., Cristaller, T. (eds) KI-99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1701. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48238-5_12

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