Modeling generalized implicatures using non-monotonic logics
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چکیده
This paper reports on an approach tomodel generalized implicatures using nonmonotonic logics. The approach, called compositional, is based on the idea of compositional semantics, where the implicatures carried by a sentence are constructed from the implicatures carried by its constituents, but it also includes some aspects nonmonotonic logics in order to model the defeasibility of generalized implicatures.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Logic, Language and Information
دوره 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007