Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying Paperback / softback
by James Clifford
Part of the Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/03/2004
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- ISBN:9780521602747
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/03/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521602747
