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Coping with ambiguity has recently received a lot of attention in natural language processing. Most work focuses on the semantic representation of ambiguous expressions. In this paper we complement this work in two ways. First, we provide an entailment relation for a language with ambiguous expressions. Second, we give a sound and complete tableaux calculus for reasoning with statements involving ambiguous quantification. The calculus interleaves partial disambiguation steps with steps in a traditional deductive process, so as to minimize and postpone branching in the proof process, and thereby increases its efficiency.
The research in this paper was supported by the Spinoza project ‘Logic in Action’ at the University of Amsterdam.
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Monz, C., de Rijke, M. (1998). A Tableaux Calculus for Ambiguous Quantifiation. In: de Swart, H. (eds) Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. TABLEAUX 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1397. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69778-0_25
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