Anaphora and logical form: on formal meaning representations for natural language

Authors:
Bonnie Nash-Webber;Raymond Reiter
Affiliations:
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, MA;Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Venue:
IJCAI'77 Proceedings of the 5th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Year:
1977

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Abstract

We argue, on general grounds, in favor of formal meaning representations for natural language. We then adopt, as a "Forcing function" for the adequacy of such as representation the problem of identifying the possible antecedents of anachoric expressions. This suggests certain structural properties of a representation which facilitate the identification of a possible antecedents. Given an appropriate representation. language with such properties, it is then possible to deal with a surprisingly rich class of anachora.