Interpreting Tense, aspect and time adverbials: A compositional, unified approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 827 LNAI, Issue , 1994, Pages 238-264

  Hwang, Chung Hee ^a   Schubert, Lenhart K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

CARDINALITIES; COMPLEX SENTENCES; ENGLISH TENSE; FORMAL GRAMMARS; LOGICAL FORMS; SEMANTIC RULES; TEMPORAL RELATION; UNIFIED APPROACH;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0942281488     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0013992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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