Metaphor, inference and domain independent mappings

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn 2007-January, Issue , 2007, Pages 17-23

  Agerri, Rodrigo ^a   Barnden, John ^a   Lee, Mark ^a   Wallington, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational semantics; Discourse structure; Inference; Metaphor interpretation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; FORMAL SEMANTICS; FORMALISATION; INFERENCE; METAPHOR INTERPRETATION; RHETORICAL RELATIONS; SEMANTICS FRAMEWORK;

MAPPING;

EID: 84959055103     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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