Computational Linguistics

Recent studies in both artificial intelligence and linguistics have demonstrated the need for a theory of the comprehension of anaphoric expressions, a theory that accounts for the role of syntactic and semantic effects, as well as inferential knowledge ...

When people use natural language in natural settings, they often use it ungrammatically, leaving out or repeating words, breaking off and restarting, speaking in fragments, etc. Their human listeners are usually able to cope with these deviations with ...

Extraposition grammars are an extension of definite clause grammars, and are similarly defined in terms of logic clauses. The extended formalism makes it easy to describe left extraposition of constituents, an important feature of natural language ...