Logical Perspectives on Language and Information (Volume 120) (Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575862832 ISBN 13: 9781575862835

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2001

Synopsis

The rapid innovations in digital technology deeply influence views on language and information processing. These exciting developments raise many questions for researchers, and shed new light on old approaches. Researchers are drawn to closely investigate the relation between form and content, the ways that linguistic utterances change information content, and the dynamics of information change. Logic, as an established method of valid argumentation, is a tool that researchers can use to gain insight in these questions of language and computation.

In answer to these linguistic and computational questions, this book presents a broad range of logical investigations into language and information processing. The topics surveyed include the notion of 'reasonable belief' in commonsense reasoning, perceptual reports in natural languages, and the logic of creation and modification of objects. The book also presents work on the verification of temporal aspects of reactive systems, analysis of scope by combining model theory and situation semantics and semantic analysis of the information articulation of linguistic statements. This volume exemplifies the abundant development of logical methods and tools in an interdisciplinary context.

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About the Author

Cleo Condoravdi is professor of linguistics at Stanford University, specializing in natural language semantics and pragmatics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575862832
• ISBN 13: 9781575862835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255
• Editor: Condoravdi Cleo, De Lavalette Gerard Renardel