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  <Title>An Equipment Model and Its Role in the Interpretation of Nominal Compounds</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> For natural language understanding systems designed for domains including relatively complex equipment, it is not sufficient to use general knowledge about this equipment.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We show problems which can be solved only if the system has access to a detailed equipment model. We discuss features of such models, in particular, their ability to simulate the equipment's behavior. As an illustration, we describe a simulation model for an air compressor. Finally, we demonstrate how to find referents in ~is model for nominal compounds.</Paragraph>
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