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  <Title>THE LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL AMBIGUITY</Title>
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4 CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This component will be implemented in a future version of BBN's JANUS natural language understanding system. Included in this system will be a unification parser with a large grammar and a new and improved semantic interpreter.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> I have tried to show how a compositional semantics need not be incompatible with a context-dependent notion of word meaning by making a division of labor between the rule-to-rule translation of syntactic structure and the complex semantics of lexical items. I shall even go so far as to say that such a division of labor is neccesary for the compositional program to succeed. A component which takes into account the creativity of lexical meanings and which utilizes knowledge representation and limited inference not only gives word meaning its proper place in a modular system but also has the potential of extending coverage and flexibility beyond what is currently available in natural language systems.</Paragraph>
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