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It is argued that natural language syntactic differences must be used a useful cues in determining the contents of input sentences to be inserted into a knowledge base. To demonstrate how some apparently less important syntactic details might turn out to be useful, relative clauses have been analyzed in the context of conceptual graph theory.
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Oh, J.C., Graham, S. (1993). Does every difference make difference?. In: Pfeiffer, H.D., Nagle, T.E. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Theory and Implementation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 754. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57454-9_8
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