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This collection takes the exciting step of examining natural language phenomena from the perspectives of both computational linguistics and formal semantics. Computational linguistics has, for historical reasons, concentrated primarily upon the design and implementation of computational models for handling the form of natural languages, not upon questions of meaning. Formal semantics, on the other hand, attempts to characterise the formal frameworks in which theories of meaning can be stated, but has not focused on the associated computational issues.
List of contents
1. Unification; 2. Representations and interpretations; 3. Syntactic categories and semantic type; 4. Fine-structure in categorical semantics; 5. Properties, propositions and semantic theory; 6. Algorithms for semantic interpretation; 7. Situation schemata and linguistic representation; 8. Application-oriented computational semantics; 9. Form and content in semantics; Epilogue: on the relation between computational linguistics and formal semantics; Bibliography.
Summary
Of great interest to those working in the fields of computational linguistics, logic, semantics, artificial intelligence and linguistics generally, this 1992 collection includes both tutorial and advanced material in order to orient the uninitiated to the concepts and problems that are at issue.
