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The paper presents a very general method to describe the agreement in the natural languages. The method can be used in automatic translation. It allows the analysis of a text and then the generation of the text in target language so it can be embeded in the reversible grammars. It allows also in the case of analysis the treatment of the agreement errors. The method is based on a set of simple expressions having logical values. We define a tetravalent logic to work with these expressions and that can be implemented in an automatic treatment. The agreement expressions are transformed in a normal form that can be used in both text analysis and text generation.
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Diaconescu, S. (2003). Natural Language Agreement Description for Reversible Grammars. In: Gedeon, T.(.D., Fung, L.C.C. (eds) AI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24581-0_14
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