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Interpreting singular definite descriptions in database queries
1985
Proceedings of the second conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -
unpublished
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The paper examines some of the characteristic features of natural language interaction with a database system and its implications for the processing of singular definite descriptions. Some proposals are made for assessing the uniqueness claim of the singular definite article in the context of retrieval from a relational database. Other standard assumptions such as the extensional evaluation and referent evaluation exclusively in the database -rather than within the discourse model -are critically examined.
doi:10.3115/976931.976962
fatcat:x7xwgiylffgzhja6h2p6acyvci