Robert E. Mercer (mercer-re)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Besnard, Philippe, Moinard, Yves and Mercer, Robert E. 1989. “The Importance of Open and Recursive Circumscription.” Artificial Intelligence 39(2): 251–262.
Etherington, David W., Mercer, Robert E. and Reiter, Raymond. 1985. “On the Adequacy or Predicate Circumscription for Closed-World Reasoning.” Computational Intelligence 1(1): 11–15. Reprinted in Ginsberg (1987, 174–178).
Mercer, Robert E. 1987a. “A Default Logic Approach to the Derivation of Natural Language Presuppositions.” PhD dissertation, Vancouver: Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia. Available as Technical Report TR 87-35, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia. .
Mercer, Robert E. 1987b. “Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics.” in Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation, edited by James D. Pustejovsky and Sabine Bergler, pp. 321–340. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence n. 627. Berlin: Springer.
Mercer, Robert E. 1988a. “Solving Some Persistent Presupposition Problems.” in COLING’88: The Twelfth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 420–425. Menlo Park, California: The AAAI Press.
Mercer, Robert E. 1988b. “Using Default Logic to Derive Natural Language Presupposition.”
Mercer, Robert E. 1992. “Default Logic: Towards a Common Logical Semantics for Presupposition and Entailment.” Journal of Semantics 9(3): 223–250.
Mercer, Robert E. 2001. “Review of Iwańska and Shapiro (2000).” Computational Linguistics 27(2): 295–297.
Mercer, Robert E. and Reiter, Raymond. 1982. “The Representation of Presuppositions Using Defaults.”

Further References

Ginsberg, Matthew L., ed. 1987. Readings in Nonmonotonic Reasoning. San Francisco, California: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Iwańska, Łucja M. and Shapiro, Stuart C., eds. 2000. Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.