Vagueness in Communication International Workshop, ViC 2009, held as

 This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, in Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009.The 11 contributions presented shed a light on new aspects in the area of

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Edited by R. Goebel, J. Siekmann, and W. Wahlster

Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information Editors-in-Chief Luigia Carlucci Aiello, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Michael Moortgat, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Editorial Board Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine, France Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Luis Fariñas, IRIT, Toulouse, France Claire Gardent, INRIA Lorraine, France Rajeev Goré, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Reiner Hähnle, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Christopher Manning, Stanford University, CA, USA Valeria de Paiva, Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy James Rogers, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA Francesca Rossi, University of Padua, Italy Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Ian H. Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Rick Nouwen Robert van Rooij Uli Sauerland Hans-Christian Schmitz (Eds.)

Vagueness in Communication International Workshop, ViC 2009 held as part of ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009 Revised Selected Papers

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Rick Nouwen Utrecht University, Utrecht Institute for Linguistics OTS Janskerkhof 13a, 3512 BL Utrecht, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Robert van Rooij University of Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) Oude Turfmarkt 141-147, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Uli Sauerland Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Hans-Christian Schmitz Fraunhofer FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany E-mail: hans-christian.schmitz@fit.fraunhofer.de ISSN 0302-9743

e-ISSN 1611-3349

ISBN 978-3-642-18445-1

e-ISBN 978-3-642-18446-8

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010942868 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.7, I.2, H.3, H.4, F.4.1, F.4.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7– Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyrig