This collection takes the exciting step of examining natural language phenomena from the perspectives of both computational linguistics and formal semantics. Computational linguistics has until now been primarily concerned with the construction of computational models for handling the complexities of linguistic form, but has not tackled the questions of representing or computing meaning. Formal semantics, on the other hand, has attempted to account for the relations between forms and meanings, without necessarily attending to computational concerns. Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics introduces the reader to the two disciplines and considers the prospects for the more unified and comprehensive computational theory of language that might obtain from their amalgamation.
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"...makes important theoretical progress in the formalism of natural language processing. The accent is on the relations between the syntax and the semantics of natural language. Also, the commonalities of natural language and artificial intelligence are stressed....readers will find the state of the art in the theory of natural language processing and some important new contributions." Claudiu Popescu, Computing Reviews
"This is a collection of excellent papers....The overall high quality of the contributions should make it valuable to all computational linguists interested in semantics." John Nerbonne, Computational Linguistics
"This is a collection of excellent papers....The overall high quality of the contributions should make it valuable to all computational linguists interested in semantics." John Nerbonne, Computational Linguistics
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Examining natural language phenomena from the perspectives of computational linguistics as well as formal semantics, this text considers the prospects for the more unified and comprehensive computational theory of language that can be obtained from their amalgamation.
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This paper stands in marked contrast to many of the others in this volume in that it is intended to be entirely tutorial in nature, presupposing little on the part of the reader but a user's knowledge of English, a modicum of good will, and the desire to learn something about the notion of unification as it has come to be used in theoretical and computational linguistics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
denotational constraints, situation schemata, categorial derivation, higher order intensional logic, semantic representation language, possible growth patterns, functional uncertainty, formal semanticist, situation semantics, computational semantics, logicist programme, individual lifting, generalized quantifiers, lambda terms, computational linguists, general linguistic theory, procedural semantics, type multiplicity, natural language systems, plural noun phrases, computational linguistics, categorial grammar, linguistic formalisms, natural language input, atomic values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This paper stands in marked contrast to many of the others in this volume in that it is intended to be entirely tutorial in nature, presupposing little on the part of the reader but a user's knowledge of English, a modicum of good will, and the desire to learn something about the notion of unification as it has come to be used in theoretical and computational linguistics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
denotational constraints, situation schemata, categorial derivation, higher order intensional logic, semantic representation language, possible growth patterns, functional uncertainty, formal semanticist, situation semantics, computational semantics, logicist programme, individual lifting, generalized quantifiers, lambda terms, computational linguists, general linguistic theory, procedural semantics, type multiplicity, natural language systems, plural noun phrases, computational linguistics, categorial grammar, linguistic formalisms, natural language input, atomic values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tore Langholm, Espen Vestre, Jens Erik Fenstad, Roderick Johnson, Michael Rosner, Tore Langhohn, Frege Structures, Mary John New!
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- Computational Linguistics: An Introduction (Studies in Natural Language Processing) by Ralph Grishman on 7 pages
- Categorial Grammar (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics) by Wojciech Buszkowski on page 127, page 141, and Back Matter
- Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing by Yorick Wilks in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language (Foundations of Communication) by Rainer Bauerle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Machine Translation: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (Studies in Natural Language Processing) by Sergei Nirenburg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Constraints, Language and Computation (Cognitive Science) by M. A. Rosner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Language of Word Meaning (Studies in Natural Language Processing) by Federica Busa in Front Matter, and page 74
- Foundations of Intensional Semantics by Chris Fox in Back Matter
- Foundations of Intensional Semantics by Chris Fox in Back Matter
- Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives (Studies in Natural Language Processing) by Peter Bosch in Front Matter
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