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provides good answers to the expectations it title raisesthe book provides far more than just an approach for processing two tropes: the whole methods gives a way to distinguish diifferent tropes and literal language, to process meaning representations, and to resolve lexical ambiguity. --Computational Linguistics
Review Quotes: "Dan Fass's book provides good answers to the expectations its title raises....The presentation is clear, the author having a great aptitude for good classifications and synthesis....The book provides far more than just an approach for processing two tropes: the whole method gives a way to distinguish different tropes and literal language, to process meaning representations, and to resolve lexical ambiguity."-Computational Linguistics