Clauses and sentences rarely stand on their own in an actual discourse; rather, the
relationship between them carries important information that allows the discourse to express …

Semantic underspecification is a technique to capture several readings of an ambiguous
expression in one single representation by deliberately omitting the differences between the …

We propose the use of regular tree grammars (RTGs) as a formalism for the underspecified
processing of scope ambiguities. By applying standard results on RTGs, we obtain a novel …

When annotating non-standard languages, descriptively incomplete language phenomena
(EAGLES, 1996) are often encountered. In this paper, we present examples of ambiguous …

Text Understanding systems often commit to a single best interpretation of a sentence before
analyzing subsequent text. This interpretation is chosen by resolving ambiguous alternatives …

24. Semantic underspecification Page 1 24. Semantic underspecification 535 Maienborn, von
Heusinger and Portner (eds.) 2011, Semantics (HSK 33.1), de Gruyter, 535–574 Stanley …

Теория риторической структуры активно используется в теоретических и прикладных
исследованиях для представления дискурсивной структуры текста и сопряженных с …

This article reviews semantic underspecification, which has emerged over the last three
decades as a technique to capture several readings of an ambiguous expression in one …

We introduce a new type of discourse constraints for the interaction of discourse relations
with the configuration of discourse segments. We examine corpus-extracted examples as …

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