The logical analysis of lexical ambiguity
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
NKRL, a knowledge representation tool for encoding the ‘meaning’ of complex narrative texts
Natural Language Engineering
An approach to multilevel semantics for applied systems
ANLC '92 Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing
Resolution of collective-distributive ambiguity using model-based reasoning
ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A hybrid approach to representation in the Janus natural language processor
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A computational mechanism for pronominal reference
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The interpretation of relational nouns
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic construction and multi-level visualization of semantic trajectories
Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Computational generation of referring expressions: A survey
Computational Linguistics
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We present a computational treatment of the semantics of plural Noun Phrases which extends an earlier approach presented by Scha [7] to be able to deal with multiple-level plurals ("the boys and the girls", "the juries and the committees", etc.), We argue that the arbitrary depth to which such plural structures can be nested creates a correspondingly arbitrary ambiguity in the possibilities for the distribution of verbs over such NPs. We present a recursive translation rule scheme which accounts for this ambiguity, and in particular show how it allows for the option of "partial distributivity" that collective verbs have when applied to such plural Noun Phrases.