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Shards: Fragment Resolution In Dialogue

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Computing Meaning

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Fernández, R., Ginzburg, J., Gregory, H., Lappin, S. (2008). Shards: Fragment Resolution In Dialogue. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5958-2_6

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