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Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding

2012-12-06 Computers
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Book Synopsis Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding by : Kathleen Dahlgren

Download or read book Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding written by Kathleen Dahlgren. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a theory, Naive Semantics (NS), a theory of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding. The basic assumption of NS is that knowing what a word means is not very different from knowing anything else, so that there is no difference in form of cognitive representation between lexical semantics and ency clopedic knowledge. NS represents word meanings as commonsense knowledge, and builds no special representation language (other than elements of first-order logic). The idea of teaching computers common sense knowledge originated with McCarthy and Hayes (1969), and has been extended by a number of researchers (Hobbs and Moore, 1985, Lenat et aI, 1986). Commonsense knowledge is a set of naive beliefs, at times vague and inaccurate, about the way the world is structured. Traditionally, word meanings have been viewed as criterial, as giving truth conditions for membership in the classes words name. The theory of NS, in identifying word meanings with commonsense knowledge, sees word meanings as typical descriptions of classes of objects, rather than as criterial descriptions. Therefore, reasoning with NS represen tations is probabilistic rather than monotonic. This book is divided into two parts. Part I elaborates the theory of Naive Semantics. Chapter 1 illustrates and justifies the theory. Chapter 2 details the representation of nouns in the theory, and Chapter 4 the verbs, originally published as "Commonsense Reasoning with Verbs" (McDowell and Dahlgren, 1987). Chapter 3 describes kind types, which are naive constraints on noun representations.

Semantics of Natural Language

2012-12-06 Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Semantics of Natural Language by : D. Davidson

Download or read book Semantics of Natural Language written by D. Davidson. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The present volume contains the artieles in Synthese 21, Numbers 3-4 and Synthese 22, Numbers 1-2. In addition, it ineludes new papers by Saul Kripke, James McCawley, John R. Ross, and Paul Ziff, and reprints 'Grammar and Philosophy' by P. F. Strawson. Strawson's artiele first appeared in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 70, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Aristotelian Society. We also repeat our thanks to the Olivetti Companyand Edizione di Comunita of Milan for permission to inelude the paper by Dana Scott; it also appeared in Synthese 21. DONALO DAVIDSON GILBERT HARMAN EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The success of linguistics in treating naturallanguages as formal syntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a paralleI or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independ ently, many philosophers and logicians have reeently been applying formai semantic methods to structures increasingly like naturallanguages. While differenees in training, method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and linguists are converging, it seerns, on a common set of interrelated probiems. Sinee philosophers and linguists are working on the same, or very similar, probiems, it would obviously be instructive to compare notes." --

Speech & Language Processing

2000-09
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Book Synopsis Speech & Language Processing by : Dan Jurafsky

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11th Annual Conference Cognitive Science Society Pod

2014-01-02 Psychology
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Release : 2014-01-02
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Book Synopsis 11th Annual Conference Cognitive Science Society Pod by : Cgnitive Science Society

Download or read book 11th Annual Conference Cognitive Science Society Pod written by Cgnitive Science Society. This book was released on 2014-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. This Program discusses The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August 1989 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The book begins with 66 paper presentations and concludes with 59 poster presentations across over 1000 pages. This program also includes a comprehensive author listing with affiliations and titles.

The Semantics of Prepositions

2011-09-06 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Semantics of Prepositions by : Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt

Download or read book The Semantics of Prepositions written by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt. This book was released on 2011-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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