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Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying

Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying

Clifford, James
James, Clifford
Van Rijsbergen, C. J.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, Book 8

Programming

ISBN10: 0521602742
ISBN13: 9780521602747
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 25 2004
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.45 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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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