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Abduction is inference to the best explanation. It is widely recognised as a form of inference that can conceptualise the problem of interpreting discourses. Model generation as we have used it is a form of abduction. We discuss the relation between our approach to abduction to others that have been applied to linguistics.
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Konrad, K. (2004). 7 Abduction. In: Model Generation for Natural Language Interpretation and Analysis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2953. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24640-4_7
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