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<Paper uid="A88-1008">
  <Title>HANDLING SCOPE AMBIGUITIES IN ENGLISH</Title>
  <Section position="11" start_page="63" end_page="63" type="evalu">
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PRAGMATICS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The most obvious place to try to combine pragmatic and domain-independent information is at the level of determining the pairwise scoping weights. The problem of how these weights should then be combined still remains but this approach does seem to be worth pursuing. Since properly applied pragmatic knowledge will often result in strong, if not absolute, preferences for certain scope orderings, the chances of selecting the best overall reading of a sentence will be improved when pragmatic heuristics are added. The ability of pragmatic knowledge to veto certain scope orderings can quite easily be implemented by setting the appropriate scoping weight below the value of the rain-weight parameter which will automatically disallow any readings containing such orderings.</Paragraph>
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