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From: Marcos
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00

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On Mon, 31 May 1999 11:42:06 +0200, Boyd Buchin
<boyd@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> skribis:

[...]
>Another example:
>
>   Er kaufte _kein_ Salz.
>   He did _not_ buy _any_ salt.
>
>   r und p definieren _kein_ Dreieck.
>/= r and p do _not_ define _any_ triangle.
>
>If the negation formalism of your formal language copies the German or
>the English formalism, you get wrong results in the other language. A
>logical approach, on the other hand, is to limited, as logic only knows
>sentence negation. It thus is far less a generation problem than a
>question of how to formalise negation.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but as I see it, it's up to the generator to decide
what's the correct way to express negation on a given syntactic
structure in natural language X. If the generator is well programmed
(and is not a simple glosser), it should make it right. 



Saludos,
Marcos

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