Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying - Couverture rigide

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Clifford, James

 
9780521354332: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying

Synopsis

Connects the semantics of databases to that of natural language, and links them through a common view of the semantics of time.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the success of efforts to incorporate more 'real world' semantics into database models. This idea is a relatively recent concern of database research but it is receiving growing interest. The book begins with a discussion of database querying which motivates the use of the paradigm of Montague Semantics and discusses the details of the intensional logic ILs. This is followed by a description of the author's own model, the Historical Relational Data Model (HRDM) which extends the RDM to include a temporal dimension. Finally the database querying language QEHIII is defined and examples illustrate its use. A formal model for the interpretation of questions is presented in this work which will form the basis for much further research.

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9780521602747: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics

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ISBN 10 :  0521602742 ISBN 13 :  9780521602747
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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