Inclusion and Exclusion in Natural Language |
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Authors: | Thomas F. Icard III |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Abstract: | We present a formal system for reasoning about inclusion and exclusion in natural language, following work by MacCartney and Manning. In particular, we show that an extension of the Monotonicity Calculus, augmented by six new type markings, is sufficient to derive novel inferences beyond monotonicity reasoning, and moreover gives rise to an interesting logic of its own. We prove soundness of the resulting calculus and discuss further logical and linguistic issues, including a new connection to the classes of weak, strong, and superstrong negative polarity items. |
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