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The aim of this paper is to present a criticism of, and to introduce some new ideas about the approach to natural language semantics that has been put forward in [Porto, Filgueiras]. The main points we will discuss are the distribution of properties among entities, the distinction between modifiers and predications, the concept of part of an object, and the way the Principle of Compositionality is applied.
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Tomás, A.P., Filgueiras, M. (1989). Some comments on a logic programming approach to natural language semantics. In: Martins, J.P., Morgado, E.M. (eds) EPIA 89. EPIA 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51665-4_85
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