Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying

James Clifford

ISBN 10: 0521602742 / ISBN 13: 9780521602747

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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• Titolo: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521602742
• ISBN 13: 9780521602747
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 246 L x 189 A x 12 P (millimetri) 246 millimetri di larghezza per 189 millimetri di altezza per 12 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 421 grammi

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Connects the semantics of databases to that of natural language, and links them through a common view of the semantics of time.

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This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics: the semantics of databases, and that of natural language, and links them through a common view of the semantics of time. It argues that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is essential for successfully incorporating more 'real world' semantics into database models.