Quantifiers, Deduction, and Context (Volume 57) (Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157586004X ISBN 13: 9781575860046

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1996

Synopsis

This volume is an outgrowth of the second Workshop on Logic, Language and Computation held at Stanford in the spring of 1993. The workshop brought together researchers interested in natural language to discuss the current state of the art at the borderline of logic, linguistics and computer science. The papers in this collection fall into three central research areas of the nineties, namely quantifiers, deduction, and context. Each contribution reflects an ever-growing interest in a more dynamic approach to meaning, which focuses on inference patterns and the interpretation of sentences in the context of a larger discourse. The papers apply either current logical machinery - such as linear logic, generalised quantifier theory, dynamic logic - or formal analyses of the notion of context in discourse to classical linguistic issues, with original and thought-provoking results deserving of a wide audience.

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Book Description

This volume is an outgrowth of the second Workshop on Logic, Language and Computation which brought together researchers interested in natural language. It focuses on themes which demonstrate the current state of the art at the borderline of logic, linguistics and computer science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157586004X
• ISBN 13: 9781575860046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: Kanazawa Makoto, Pinon Christopher, De Swart Henriette