Logic, Language and Computation, Volume 3
edited by Lawrence Cavedon, Patrick Blackburn, Nick Braisby, and Atsushi Shimojima
With the rise of the internet and the proliferation of technology to gather and organize data, our era has been defined as “the information age.” With the prominence of information as a research concept, there has arisen an increasing appreciation of the intertwined nature of fields such as logic, linguistics, and computer science that answer the questions about information and the ways it can be processed. The many research traditions do not agree about the exact nature of information. By bringing together ideas from diverse perspectives, this book presents the emerging consensus about what a conclusive theory of information should be. The book provides an introduction to the topic, work on the underlying ideas, and technical research that pins down the richer notions of information from a mathematical point of view.
The book contains contributions to a general theory of information, while also tackling specific problems from artificial intelligence, formal semantics, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of mind. There is focus on the dynamics of information flow, and also a consideration of static approaches to information content; both quantitative and qualitative approaches are represented.
Lawrence Cavedon is a lecturer at the
computer science department in the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology and senior computer scientist at Advanced Products and
Strategy Group, VerticalNet, Inc. Patrick
Blackburn is a lecturer at the department of computational
linguistics in the University of Saarland. Nick
Braisby is a lecturer in cognitive psychology at the Department
of Psychology in The Open University. Atsushi Shimojima is associate professor at the School of Knowledge Science in the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Epistemic Utility in Commonsense Reasoning
Janet Aisbett and Greg Gibbon
- 2 Conceptual Covers in Dynamic Semantics
Maria Aloni
- 3 Characterization Result for d-Horn Formulas
Carlos Areces, Verónica Becher, and Sebastián Ferro
- 4 A Glimpse into Algorithmic Information Theory
Critian S. Claude
- 5 Information States, Attitudes and Dependent Record Types
Robin Cooper
- 6 The Semantics of Dynamic Conjunction
Paul Dekker
- 7 Concept Combination: A Geometrical Model
Peter Gärdenfors
- 8 Identity in Epistemic Syemantics
Jelle Gerbrandy
- 9 An Implicit Argument Analysis of Japanese Zeroes
Yasuhiro Katagiri
- 10 A Situation Semantic Account of Topic vs. Nominative Marking
Yookyung Kim
- 11 Belief and the Epistemic Channel
Hisashi Komatsu
- 12 Functions, Representations, and Zombies
Gregory R. Mulhauser
- 13 Aspect Analysis in Arrow Logic
Satoshi Tojo
- 14 Logical Constructions Suggested by Vision
Michiel van Lambalgen
- 15 Information in Discourse: A Game for Many Agents
Kees Vermeulen
- 16 How to Recover From (Non)Monotonic Inconsistencies
Cees Witteveen and Wiebe van der Hoek
3/15/2001
ISBN (Paperback): 1575862689 (9781575862682)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575862670 (9781575862675)
See also Logic, Language and
Computation, volume 2 and volume 1
Subject: Language and Logic; Symbolic and mathematical logic; Computational linguistics
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