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Free adjuncts in natural language instructions

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Bonnie Lynn Webber,

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COLING '90: Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2

Pages 395 - 400

https://doi.org/10.3115/997939.998007

Published: 20 August 1990 Publication History

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In this paper, we give a brief account of our project Animation from Instructions, the view of instructions it reflects, and the semantics of one construction - the free adjunct - that is common in Natural Language instructions.

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Di Eugenio BWhite MZampolli A(1992)On the interpretation of natural language instructionsProceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 410.3115/992424.992451(1147-1151)Online publication date: 23-Aug-1992
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Balkanski CZampolli A(1992)Action relations in rationale clauses and means clausesProceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 110.3115/992066.992111(267-273)Online publication date: 23-Aug-1992
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COLING '90: Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2

August 1990

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KVAL Research Institute for Information Science, Stockholm, Sweden

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Shirai KOokawa H(2006)Compiling a lexicon of cooking actions for animation generationProceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions10.5555/1273073.1273172(771-778)Online publication date: 17-Jul-2006
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Di Eugenio BWhite MZampolli A(1992)On the interpretation of natural language instructionsProceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 410.3115/992424.992451(1147-1151)Online publication date: 23-Aug-1992
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