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Graphs and Booleans: on the Generation of Referring Expressions

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Van Deemter, K., Krahmer, E. (2008). Graphs and Booleans: on the Generation of Referring Expressions. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5958-2_16

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