Natural Language Is A Representational Language

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-96-04, Issue , 1996, Pages 44-70

  Iwanska, Lucja ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TRACTABILITY; CONTEXT DEPENDENCY; NATURAL LANGUAGES; RICH STRUCTURE;

EID: 84957613220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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