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What knowledge sources are necessary in the interpretation and generation of ellipsis? After a short background on earlier approaches we compare and discuss each of the four papers selected for this special issue, examining how they approach ellipsis generation or interpretation. We highlight areas where more research needs to be done: outlining how pragmatics affects ellipsis, empirical studies, and theoretical work on what the effect of ellipsis is in context.
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Spenader, J., Hendriks, P. Combining multiple information sources for ellipsis. Research Language Computation 4, 327–333 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11168-006-9025-8
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