Formal semantics and pragmatics for natural language querying / James Clifford.
Clifford, James, 1950-| Call Number | 006.3/5 |
| Author | Clifford, James, 1950- author. |
| Title | Formal semantics and pragmatics for natural language querying / James Clifford. Formal Semantics & Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xv, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge tracts in theoretical computer science ; 8 |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Summary | 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. |
| Subject | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (COMPUTER SCIENCE) Programming languages (Electronic computers) Semantics. PRAGMATICS. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Subject | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (COMPUTER SCIENCE) Programming languages (Electronic computers) Semantics. PRAGMATICS. |
| Multimedia |