Alice ter Meulen integrates current research in natural language semantics, with detailed analyses of English discourse, and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time.The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars in linguistics, logical semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Representing Time in Natural Language offers a systematic and detailed account of how we use temporal information contained in a text or in discourse to reason about the flow of time, inferring the order in which events happened when this is not explicitly stated. A new representational toolkit is designed to formalize an appropriately context-dependent notion of situated inference. Dynamic Aspect Trees representing temporal dependencies constitute a novel and important dynamic temporal logic that makes it easy to see what follows when from the information given in an ordinary English text.Ter Meulen makes use of some of the fundamental assumptions of Situation Semantics and incorporates the dynamic methodology embodied in Discourse Representation Theory and in other dynamic logics into her temporal logic. The result is a computational inference system that can be applied across the board to fragments of natural languages.
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" Representing Time in Natural Language will become a standardreference for graduate students, researchers in linguistics, and alsofor computer scientists who are interested in representing time inknowledge bases and in natural-language understandingsystems. Finally, it will be of interest to philosophers of logic andlanguage who wish to understand the phenomena surrounding tense andaspect." Jeff Pelletier , University of Alberta
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Alice G. B. ter Meulen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, and a member of the Cognitive Science Faculty and the Multidisciplinary Logic Group at Indiana University.
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- Montague Grammar by D. Partee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Proceedings of the Tenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Dawn Bates in Back Matter
- Handbook of Logic and Language by Johan F. A. K. van van Benthem in Back Matter
- Studies in Philosophy (Essay index reprint series) by Reinhold Friedrich Alfred Hoernle in Back Matter
- Computer Science (Watts Library) by Robert L. Perry in Back Matter
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