Natural Language Syntax and First Order Preference

We have argued elsewhere that first order inference can be made more efficient by using non-standard syntax for first order logic. In this paper we show how a fragment of English syntax under Montague semantics provides the foundation of a new inference procedure. This procedure seems more effective...

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Main Authors: McAllester, David, Givan, Robert
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6524