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Discourse Interpretation and the Scope of Operators
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Discourse Interpretation and the Scope of Operators by Massimo Poesio
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curte3t-de fle.cLcY O:t rocts inyl2; a144,ui , r'odkl,,. 1On; discourse processe,;, e"arl c inter-ret-t n ~rt i, r t i Oriented con.e rati
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Curriculum Vitae
Massimo Poesio '
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of Torino, Italy from 1981 to 1986 dgrauae sum acmiidi -W'M a Diploma di Laurea in Informatica (Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science) with a dissertation on knowledge representation techniques for natural language process:rig systems under the supervision of Prof. P Torasso. The author then spent one year working on speech understanding at CSELT, the Research Laboratory of the Italian National Telephone Company, and two years at the University of Hamburg, Germany, participating to the discourse understanding project WISBER under the direction of Dr. H. Marburger, Prof. B. Neumann, and Prof. W. Wahlster. He came to the University of Rochester in the Fall of 1988 as a PhD student in Computer Science, pursuing his research under the direction of Prof. Lenhart K. Schubert and participating to the TRAINS project under the joint direction of Prof. Schubert and Prof. James F. Allen.
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