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The treatment of plurality in L LILOG

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This paper summarizes research concerning the incorporation of plural constructions into the LILOG text understanding system. The treatment of plurality is based on the first order system LP, first presented in [Link 1983]. The paper consists of two parts. After a very short review of the system LP, a translation is given from a version of LILOG's discourse representation language L Dis , containing plural constructions, into the formal language LLILOG, which, in turn, is extended by LP. This shows how it is possible for LILOG's inference machine, modified along the lines indicated, to deal with pluralic bits of knowledge that are realistic representations of a wide array of plural constructions in language. Since in the field of plural phenomena there seems to be some danger of proliferation of readings, particular emphasis has been laid on questions of vagueness and ambiguity.

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Link, G., Schütze, H. (1991). The treatment of plurality in L LILOG . In: Herzog, O., Rollinger, CR. (eds) Text Understanding in LILOG. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 546. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54594-8_68

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