Weighted abduction (Hobbs et al. 1993) is based on the idea that the task of the hearer or reader is to explain the word sequence comprising a sentence by viewing the meaning of that sentence as a logical consequence of general and contextual knowledge along with some assumptions, to be kept as "lightweight" as possible.
These must always be introduced within a sentence, and cannot comprise a complete sentence on their own.
The poem and the short story are theoretically perfectible, but I doubt there is such a thing as a perfect novel (even if we could begin to agree among ourselves on what comprises a good sentence).
In this article, we outline an implementation of these control procedures and treat improvements of their runtime efficiency, in particular to overcome shortcomings of the underlying theorem prover, which is repeatedly called with an input comprising a completeness sentence of increasing size.
The latter sentence comprised a reference to the habit of consuming seeds as snacks, in which he saw evidence of rudimentary behavior: "Here [that is, outside Transylvania], one doesn't have rights, but complaisances.
In particular, dialogs were constructed in which the last (target) sentence either comprised a 'novelty' expressed by the corrected assumption of the interlocutor in noun position (i.e. focused information; condition FF) or only previously mentioned 'given' information (i.e. non-focused; condition GG).
They usually comprised a lengthy procession, a solemn mass, an oath of obedience to the Inquisition, a sermon, and the reading of the sentences.
They comprised a new category.
The orchestra comprised a single piano.
In conjunction with statistical training and parsing techniques, this loosening of grammar leads to a rather different conception of what comprises a grammatically flawed sentence: It is not necessarily one rejected by the grammar, but one whose analysis requires some rarely used rules.
