Plausible Reasoning and the Resolution of Quantifier Scope Ambiguities

• Published in: Studia logica Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 271 - 289
• Main Authors: Saba, Walid S., Corriveau, Jean-Pierre
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.03.2001
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Computational linguistics; Lexical quantifiers; Logical form; Natural language; Pragmatics; Reasoning; Semantics; Syntactic ambiguity

Despite overwhelming evidence suggesting that quantifier scope is a phenomenon that must be treated at the pragmatic level, most computational treatments of scope ambiguities have thus far been a collection of syntactically motivated preference rules. This might be in part due to the prevailing wisd...