[comp.ai] References On Mass Terms

rkaplan@pacsbb.UUCP (Randy Kaplan) (10/31/88)

I am doing research on knowledge acquisition from NL text. I am in
need of references on MASS TERMS. If anyone has any references they
would be most helpful.

Randy Kaplan
kaplan@vuvaxcom.bitnet

gh@ai.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst) (11/03/88)

>I am doing research on knowledge acquisition from NL text. I am in
>need of references on MASS TERMS. If anyone has any references they
>would be most helpful.

The work of Harry Bunt, published in his book "Mass terms and
model-theoretic semantics (Cambridge UP), would be a start.  There is
also work by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, University of Alberta.  He is a
philosopher interested in NL issues; try looking him up in the
appropriate indexes.


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