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A semantics of informing provides a good framework for formalizing descriptions of coreference systems in natural languages, especially for capturing the ambiguity so natural to such systems. Pronouns are clearly ambiguous when taken out of context.
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Smaby, R.M. (1978). Ambiguous Coreference with Quantifiers. In: Guenthner, F., Schmidt, S.J. (eds) Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Languages. Synthese Language Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9775-2_2
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