Interpreting vague utterances in context

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  DeVault, David ^a   Stone, Matthew ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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FINE GRAINED; IN CONTEXTS; SCALAR PREDICATES; SEMANTIC MODELLING; UNDERSPECIFIED SEMANTICS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85119092010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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