Computing discourse semantics: The predicate-argument semantics of discourse connectives in D-LTAG

Journal of Semantics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-106

  Forbes Riley, Katherine ^a,c   Webber, Bonnie ^b   Joshi, Aravind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

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EID: 32244446391     PISSN: 01675133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffh032     Document Type: Article

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