Temporal Contexts for Discourse Representation: An Extension of the Conceptual Graph Approach

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-255

  Moulin, Bernard ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Conceptual graphs; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Temporal contexts; Time

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

CONCEPTUAL GRAPH THEORY; DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION; TEMPORAL CONTEXTS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0031186698     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008224616031     Document Type: Article

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