A finite-state approach to events in natural language semantics

Journal of Logic and Computation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-92

  Fernando, Tim ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Events; Finite state; Natural language; Superposition

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS; PREDICATE LOGIC; TEMPORAL SEQUENCE; TEMPORAL STRUCTURE;

FINITE AUTOMATA;

EID: 1342282318     PISSN: 0955792X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/logcom/14.1.79     Document Type: Article

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