Computing Natural Language

Atocha Aliseda-Llera, Rob Van Glabbeek, and Dag Westerståhl

This book pursues the recent upsurge of research along the interface of logic, language and computation, adding connections to artificial intelligence and machine learning. It contains a variety of contributions to the logical and computational analysis of natural language. A wide range of logical and computational tools are employed, and applied to such varied areas as context-dependency, linguistic discourse, and formal grammar.

In more detail, the papers in this volume deal with context-dependency from philosophical, computational, and logical points of view; a logical framework for combining dynamic discourse semantics and preferential reasoning in AI; negative polarity items in connection with affective predicates; Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar from a perspective of type theory and category theory; and an axiomatic theory of machine learning of natural language, with applications to physics word problems.

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ISBN (Paperback): 1575861003

ISBN (Cloth): 1575861011

Subject: Linguistics; Computational Linguistics