Tense trees as the "fine structure" of discourse

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1992-June, Issue , 1992, Pages 232-240

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE CONTEXT; EMBEDDED CLAUSE; FINE STRUCTURES; LOGICAL FORMS;

EID: 84882789709     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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