Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science)

James Clifford

ISBN 10: 0521354331 / ISBN 13: 9780521354332

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Type: Book Small plain label inside cover.Letter J stamped on title page. N° de réf. du vendeur 053109

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Titre : Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural ...

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press

Date d'édition : 1990

Reliure : Cloth

Etat : Good

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Edition : First Edition.

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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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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.