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  <Title>A Terminological Simplification Transformation for Natural Language Question-Answering Systems</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A new method is presented for simplifying the logical expressions used to represent utterance meaning in a natural language system. 1 This simplification method utilizes the encoded knowledge and the limited inference-making capability of a taxonomic knowledge representation system to reduce the constituent structure of logical expressions. The specific application is to the problem of mapping expressions of the meaning representation language to a database language capable of retrieving actual responses.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Particular account is taken of the model-theoretic aspects of this problem.</Paragraph>
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