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A natural language processing system is only user-relevant if it can internally deal with the meaning of natural language utterances in a systematic way. For NL determiners, this paper contributes to this goal in two ways: It decomposes the determiner problem into its representational and interpretational aspects corresponding to the knowledge levels of the modular dialog system XTRA; and, by defining their complex meaning on these levels, it evaluates the determiners and determiner sequences possible in German and the descriptions formed by them.
The work presented here is being supported by the Gennan Science Foundation (OFG) in its Special Collaborative Program on AI and Knowledge-based Systems (SFB 314), project Nl (XTRA).
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Reddig, C. (1988). “3D” in NLP: Determiners, Descriptions, and the Dialog Memory in the XTRA Project. In: Hoeppner, W. (eds) Künstliche Intelligenz. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74064-0_17
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