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| From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Model-theoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy)
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Edition: 1
Author: H. Kamp, U. Reyle
Publisher: Springer
Release Date: 1993-07-31
ISBN-10: 0792310284
ISBN-13: 9780792310280
List Price: $42.95
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This is the first textbook that approaches natural language semantics and logic from the perspective of Discourse Representation Theory, an approach which emphasizes the dynamic and incremental aspects of meaning and inference.
The book has been carefully designed for the classroom. It is aimed at students with varying degrees of preparation, including those without prior exposure to semantics or formal logic. Moreover, it should make DRT easily accessible to those who want to learn about the theory on their own.
Exercises are available to test understanding as well as to encourage independent theoretical thought.
The book serves a double purpose. Besides a textbook, it is also the first comprehensive and fully explicit statement of DRT available in the form of a book.
The first part of the book develops the basic principles of DRT for a small fragment of English (but which has nevertheless the power of standard predicate logic). The second part extends this fragment by adding plurals; it discusses a wide variety of problems connected with plural nouns and verbs. The third part applies the theory to the analysis of tense and aspect. Many of the problems raised in Parts Two and Three are novel, as are the solutions proposed.
For undergraduate and graduate students interested in linguistics, theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Suitable for students with no previous exposure to formal semantics or logic.
Necessary reading: Still the best intro to DRT
| Customer Rating: | Although written a while back, this is still necessary reading for those interested in computational linguistics, because it is still the best introduction, discussion, and reference for an important semantic theory: Discourse Representation Theory (DRT).
Unlike the semantic theories which came before, DRT takes seriously the fact that in natural language, sentences arn't understood in isolation, but in context. Each sentence is understood in light of the previously uttered sentences, and adds its own information to an evolving set of knowledge.
To track this dynamically evolving information, DRT introduces a unique data structure called a "Discourse Representation Structure" or DRS. The DRS consists of a set of known individual object, plus properties and relations, interpreted as constraints, about them.
But the twist--what really sets DRT out as a breakthrough scientific theory--is that the DRS serves not _just_ as a handy means to track an evolving knowledge base, but it also solves several otherwise mysterious problems in understanding sentences, including so-called "Donkey Anaphora" and other pronoun binding problems.
DRT has served as the foundation and inspiration to much work in computational linguistics, including such interesting frameworks as situation theory, which cements this book's place in the linguist's cannon. |
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