Logic and Lexicon
Title | Logic and Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred Pinkal |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9401584451 |
Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic indefiniteness, which have been proposed in linguistics, philosophy and computer science. It argues for a view of indefiniteness as the potential for further contextual specification, and proposes a unified logical treatment of indefiniteness on this basis. The inherent inconsistency of natural language induced by irreducible imprecision is investigated, and treated in terms of a dynamic extension of the proposed logic. The book is an extended edition of a German monograph and is addressed to advanced students and researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics, logic, philosophy of language, and NL- oriented AI. Although it makes extensive use of logical formalisms, it requires only some basic familiarity with standard predicate logic concepts since all technical terms are carefully explained.
Logic and Lexicon
Title | Logic and Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred Pinkal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2014-01-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789401584463 |
Dictionary of Logic as Applied in the Study of Language
Title | Dictionary of Logic as Applied in the Study of Language PDF eBook |
Author | W. Marciszewski |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2013-06-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401712530 |
1. STRUCTURE AND REFERENCES 1.1. The main part of the dictionary consists of alphabetically arranged articles concerned with basic logical theories and some other selected topics. Within each article a set of concepts is defined in their mutual relations. This way of defining concepts in the context of a theory provides better understand ing of ideas than that provided by isolated short defmitions. A disadvantage of this method is that it takes more time to look something up inside an extensive article. To reduce this disadvantage the following measures have been adopted. Each article is divided into numbered sections, the numbers, in boldface type, being addresses to which we refer. Those sections of larger articles which are divided at the first level, i.e. numbered with single numerals, have titles. Main sections are further subdivided, the subsections being numbered by numerals added to the main section number, e.g. I, 1.1, 1.2, ... , 1.1.1, 1.1.2, and so on. A comprehensive subject index is supplied together with a glossary. The aim of the latter is to provide, if possible, short defmitions which sometimes may prove sufficient. As to the use of the glossary, see the comment preceding it.
Operators in the Lexicon
Title | Operators in the Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Dany Jaspers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN |
Logic in Grammar
Title | Logic in Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Gennaro Chierchia |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2013-07-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199697973 |
In a fundamental investigation of language and human reasoning, Gennaro Chierchia looks at how syntactic and inferential processes interact through the study of polarity sensitive and free choice items. He reformulates the semantics of focus and scope and the pragmatics of implicature as part of the recursive semantic system.
A Dictionary of Logic
Title | A Dictionary of Logic PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Macaulay Ferguson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192511556 |
A Dictionary of Logic expands on Oxford's coverage of the topic in works such as The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, and A Dictionary of Computer Science. Featuring more than 450 entries primarily concentrating on technical terminology, the history of logic, the foundations of mathematics, and non-classical logic, this dictionary is an essential resource for both undergraduates and postgraduates studying philosophical logic at a high level.
Using a Logic Grammar to Learn a Lexicon
Title | Using a Logic Grammar to Learn a Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Manny Rayner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
"It is suggested that the concept of "logic grammar" as relation between a string and a parse-tree can be entended by admitting the lexicon as part of the relation. This makes it possible to give a simple and elegant formulation of the process of infering a lexicon from example sentences in conjunction with a grammar. Various problems arising from implementation and complexity factors are considered, and examples are shown to support the claim that the method shows potential as a practical tool for automatic lexicon acquisition."