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Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying

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ISBN-10: 0521602742

ISBN-13: 9780521602747

Edition: 2004

Authors: James Clifford, C. J. van Rijsbergen, S. Abramsky, P. H. Aczel, Y. Gurevich

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $74.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

James Clifford is Professor, History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor, Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Introduction
Montague semantics
The HRDM model
Intensional logic and historical databases
Overview of English query language QE-III
Formal definition of QE-III
Examples from the QE-III fragment
Summary and conclusions