It has traditionally been assumed that Natural Language uses explicit quantifier expressions (such as "all" and "most", "the" and "a") for the purpose of quantification. We argue that expressions of the first type are comparatively rare in real world Natural Language sentences, and that the latter (articles) cannot be considered straightforward quantlfiers in the first place. H o w ever, practically all applications of Natural Language Processfng require sentences to be quantified unambiguously. W e llst a few possible (syntactical, semantical, a n d "pragmatical") sources of "implicit" quantiflcatlonal information in Natural Language; they combine in sometimes intricate.
