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NL from Logic: Connecting Entailment and Generation

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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The paper introduces an index of fully-specified logical form for unrestricted natural language. The index is argued to facilitate both computation of entailment and generation under semantic control.

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Cremers, C. (2010). NL from Logic: Connecting Entailment and Generation. In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_10

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