Abstract
From a formal semantic perspective, interpreting natural language utterances can be broken down into two tasks:
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Constructing logical forms or semantic representations of the utterances and
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Manipulating well-formed semantic representations.
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Asher, N., Fernando, T. (1999). Labeled Representations, Underspecification and Disambiguation. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4231-1_4
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