... Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions William J.Black, Department of Computation, UMIST, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, ... represent a given state of affairs. It can only be used by an expert in the method of analysis it documents. For such an expert, it is probably an optimal 243 tool. However, we have noted in section ... use of the given/new distinction in establishing the co-reference of definite and indefinite descriptions, incrementally constructing extensional semantic interpretations using intermediate...