@mastersthesis{Snarr1,
  author = "Victoria L. Snarr",
  title = "Theory and parsing of the coordinate conjunction ``and''"
  school = "Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto",
  month = "August",
  year = "1984"
  note = "Published as technical report CSRI-171",
  abstract = "<p>Although the conjunction <i>and</i> appears to have a simple function in the
             English language, it has proved to be a stumbling block for both theoretical
             and computational linguists.
             </p><p>
                One of the theoretical problems of conjunction is to determine what governs
             the acceptability of a structure in which two elements are connected by
             <i>and</i>.  The corresponding computational problem is, given this knowledge,
             to incorporate it into an efficient parser for English.
             </p><p>
                This thesis proposes a solution to the theoretical problem which is in the
             form of two general constraints -- a syntactic constraint and a semantic
             one; and then incorporates these constraints into a ``strictly deterministic''
             parser for English.</p>"
}