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Conjoined Nominal Expressions in Japanese

Interpretation through Monad

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New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (JSAI-isAI 2011)

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This paper studies nominal expressions in Japanese that are formed by conjoining two or more nominal expressions with conjunctions, and presents a theory of nominal expressions that captures their behaviors. In what follows, such nominal expressions are referred to as conjoined nominal expressions.

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  1. University of Otago, New Zealand

    J. -R. Hayashishita

  2. Ochanomizu University, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

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  1. Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midoriku, 226-8503, Yokohama, Japan

    Manabu Okumura

  2. Faculty of Science, Department of Information Science, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Ohtsuka, 112-8610, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

  3. National Institute of Informatics /Sokendai, 2-1-2 HItotsubashi, Postal Code 101-8430, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    Ken Satoh

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Hayashishita, J.R., Bekki, D. (2012). Conjoined Nominal Expressions in Japanese. In: Okumura, M., Bekki, D., Satoh, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7258. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32090-3_6

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