Philosophy, Language, and Artificial Intelligence Resources for Processing Natural Language
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Studies in Cognitive Systems
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Philosophy and Natural-Language Processing
- Prologue: Modes of Meaning
- Utterer’s Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning
- I: Formal Syntax of Natural Language
- Footlose and Context-Free
- Evidence Against the Context-Freeness of Natural Language
- II: Semantic Aspects of Natural Language
- Truth and Meaning
- Semantics for Propositional Attitudes
- III: Connecting Syntax with Semantics
- The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English
- Phrase Structure Grammar
- IV: Natural Language and Logical Form
- Quantifiers in Natural Languages: Some Logical Problems, I
- Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
- V: Possible-Worlds and Situation Semantics
- From Worlds to Situations
- Possible Worlds and Situations
- Epilogue: From Semantics to Pragmatics
- Semantics versus Pragmatics
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects