Categorial Grammars And Natural Language Structures

Author : Richard T. Oehrle,E. Bach,Deirdre Wheeler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 560 pages
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Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1556080301

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Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures by Richard T. Oehrle,E. Bach,Deirdre Wheeler Pdf

For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend of May 31 through June 2, 1985. We wish to record our gratitude to the participants in that conference, as well as to the National Science Foundation (Grant No. BNS-8418916) and the University of Arizona SBS Research Institute for their financial support. The advice we received from Susan Steele on organizational matters proved invaluable and had many felicitous consequences for the success of the con­ ference. We also would like to thank the staff of the Departments of Linguistics of the University of Arizona and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for their help, as weIl as a number of individuals, including Lin Hall, Kathy Todd, and Jiazhen Hu, Sandra Fulmer, Maria Sandoval, Natsuko Tsujimura, Stuart Davis, Mark Lewis, Robin Schafer, Shi Zhang, Olivia Oehrle-Steele, and Paul Saka. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Martin Scrivener, our editor, for his patience and his encouragement. Vll INTRODUCTION The term 'categorial grammar' was introduced by Bar-Rillel (1964, page 99) as a handy way of grouping together some of his own earlier work (1953) and the work of the Polish logicians and philosophers Lesniewski (1929) and Ajdukiewicz (1935), in contrast to approaches to linguistic analysis based on phrase structure grammars.

Author : Mary McGee Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
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Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933762

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Categorial Grammars (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by Mary McGee Wood Pdf

In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. This book, the first introduction to categorical grammars, is written as an objective critical assessment. Categorial grammars offer a radical alternative to the phrase-structure paradigm, with deep roots in the philosophy of language, logic and algebra. Mary McGee Wood outlines their historical evolution and discusses their formal basis, starting with a quasi-canonical core and considering a number of possible extensions. She also explores their treatment of a number of linguistic phenomena, including passives, raising, discontinuous dependencies and non-constituent coordination, as well as such general issues as word order, logic, psychological plausibility and parsing. This introduction to categorial grammars will be of interest to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in current theories of grammar, including comparative, descriptive, and computational linguistics.

Author : Richard T. Oehrle,E. Bach,Deirdre Wheeler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 524 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401568784

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Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures by Richard T. Oehrle,E. Bach,Deirdre Wheeler Pdf

For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend of May 31 through June 2, 1985. We wish to record our gratitude to the participants in that conference, as well as to the National Science Foundation (Grant No. BNS-8418916) and the University of Arizona SBS Research Institute for their financial support. The advice we received from Susan Steele on organizational matters proved invaluable and had many felicitous consequences for the success of the con ference. We also would like to thank the staff of the Departments of Linguistics of the University of Arizona and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for their help, as weIl as a number of individuals, including Lin Hall, Kathy Todd, and Jiazhen Hu, Sandra Fulmer, Maria Sandoval, Natsuko Tsujimura, Stuart Davis, Mark Lewis, Robin Schafer, Shi Zhang, Olivia Oehrle-Steele, and Paul Saka. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Martin Scrivener, our editor, for his patience and his encouragement. Vll INTRODUCTION The term 'categorial grammar' was introduced by Bar-Rillel (1964, page 99) as a handy way of grouping together some of his own earlier work (1953) and the work of the Polish logicians and philosophers Lesniewski (1929) and Ajdukiewicz (1935), in contrast to approaches to linguistic analysis based on phrase structure grammars.

Author : Wojciech Buszkowski,Witold Marciszewski,J. F. A. K. van Benthem
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027215307

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Categorial Grammar by Wojciech Buszkowski,Witold Marciszewski,J. F. A. K. van Benthem Pdf

This book is devoted to the mathematical foundations of categorial grammar including type-theoretic foundations of mathematics, grammatical categories and other topics related to categorial grammar and to philosophical and linguistic applications of this framework. The volume consists of three parts. The first, introductory part, contains the editor's addresses and two survey chapters concerning the history (W. Marciszewski) and current trends of the discipline (J.van Benthem). The second part consists of 10 chapters devoted to categorial grammar proper, and the third part 7 chapters devoted to areas close to categorial grammar. Most of the contributions are original papers, but five of them are reprints of classics (M.J. Cresswell, P.T. Geach, H. Hiz, J. Lambek, T. Potts).

Author : Richard Moot,Christian Retore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
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Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642315558

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The Logic of Categorial Grammars by Richard Moot,Christian Retore Pdf

This book is intended for students in computer science, formal linguistics, mathematical logic and to colleagues interested in categorial grammars and their logical foundations. These lecture notes present categorial grammars as deductive systems, in the approach called parsing-as-deduction, and the book includes detailed proofs of their main properties. The papers are organized in topical sections on AB grammars, Lambek’s syntactic calculus, Lambek calculus and montague grammar, non-associative Lambek calculus, multimodal Lambek calculus, Lambek calculus, linear logic and proof nets and proof nets for the multimodal Lambek calculus.

Author : U. Reyle,C. Rohrer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 491 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400913370

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Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theories by U. Reyle,C. Rohrer Pdf

presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar. Since all implementations discussed in this volume use PROLOG (with the exception of BlockjHaugeneder), we felt that it would also be useful to explain the difference between unification in PROLOG and in UG. After the introduction to UG we briefly summarize the main arguments for using linguistic theories in natural language processing. We conclude with a short summary of the contributions to this volume. UNIFICATION GRAMMAR 3 Feature Structures or Complex Categories. Unification Grammar was developed by Martin Kay (Kay 1979). Martin Kay wanted to give a precise defmition (and implementation) of the notion of 'feature'. Linguists use features at nearly all levels of linguistic description. In phonetics, for instance, the phoneme b is usually described with the features 'bilabial', 'voiced' and 'nasal'. In the case of b the first two features get the value +, the third (nasal) gets the value -. Feature value pairs in phonology are normally represented as a matrix. bilabial: + voiced: + I nasal: - [Feature matrix for b.] In syntax features are used, for example, to distinguish different noun classes. The Latin noun 'murus' would be characterized by the following feature-value pairs: gender: masculin, number: singular, case: nominative, pred: murus. Besides a matrix representation one frequently fmds a graph representation for feature value pairs. The edges of the graph are labelled by features. The leaves denote the value of a feature.

Author : W.J. Savitch,E. Bach,W.E. Marsh,Gila Safran-Naveh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789400934016

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The Formal Complexity of Natural Language by W.J. Savitch,E. Bach,W.E. Marsh,Gila Safran-Naveh Pdf

Ever since Chomsky laid the framework for a mathematically formal theory of syntax, two classes of formal models have held wide appeal. The finite state model offered simplicity. At the opposite extreme numerous very powerful models, most notable transformational grammar, offered generality. As soon as this mathematical framework was laid, devastating arguments were given by Chomsky and others indicating that the finite state model was woefully inadequate for the syntax of natural language. In response, the completely general transformational grammar model was advanced as a suitable vehicle for capturing the description of natural language syntax. While transformational grammar seems likely to be adequate to the task, many researchers have advanced the argument that it is "too adequate. " A now classic result of Peters and Ritchie shows that the model of transformational grammar given in Chomsky's Aspects [IJ is powerful indeed. So powerful as to allow it to describe any recursively enumerable set. In other words it can describe the syntax of any language that is describable by any algorithmic process whatsoever. This situation led many researchers to reasses the claim that natural languages are included in the class of transformational grammar languages. The conclu sion that many reached is that the claim is void of content, since, in their view, it says little more than that natural language syntax is doable algo rithmically and, in the framework of modern linguistics, psychology or neuroscience, that is axiomatic.

Author : Carl Jesse Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010226145

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Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars, Head Grammars, and Natural Language by Carl Jesse Pollard Pdf

Author : Karl Reichl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
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Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110943207

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Categorial Grammar and Word-Formation: The De-adjectival Abstract Noun in English by Karl Reichl Pdf

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Author : Ruslan Mitkov,Nicolas Nicolov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276001

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Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing by Ruslan Mitkov,Nicolas Nicolov Pdf

This volume is based on contributions from the First International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP’95) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 1995. This conference was one of the most important and competitively reviewed conferences in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for 1995 with submissions from more than 30 countries. Of the 48 papers presented at RANLP’95, the best (revised) papers have been selected for this book, in the hope that they reflect the most significant and promising trends (and latest successful results) in NLP. The book is organised thematically and the contributions are grouped according to the traditional topics found in NLP: morphology, syntax, grammars, parsing, semantics, discourse, grammars, generation, machine translation, corpus processing and multimedia. To help the reader find his/her way, the authors have prepared an extensive index which contains major terms used in NLP; an index of authors which lists the names of the authors and the page numbers of their paper(s); a list of figures; and a list of tables. This book will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and graduate students interested in Natural Language Processing and more specifically to those who work in Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Machine Translation.

Author : D. Davidson,Gilbert Harman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401025577

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Semantics of Natural Language by D. Davidson,Gilbert Harman Pdf

"The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The present volume contains the artieles in Synthese 21, Numbers 3-4 and Synthese 22, Numbers 1-2. In addition, it ineludes new papers by Saul Kripke, James McCawley, John R. Ross, and Paul Ziff, and reprints 'Grammar and Philosophy' by P. F. Strawson. Strawson's artiele first appeared in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 70, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Aristotelian Society. We also repeat our thanks to the Olivetti Companyand Edizione di Comunita of Milan for permission to inelude the paper by Dana Scott; it also appeared in Synthese 21. DONALO DAVIDSON GILBERT HARMAN EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The success of linguistics in treating naturallanguages as formal syntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a paralleI or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independ ently, many philosophers and logicians have reeently been applying formai semantic methods to structures increasingly like naturallanguages. While differenees in training, method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and linguists are converging, it seerns, on a common set of interrelated probiems. Sinee philosophers and linguists are working on the same, or very similar, probiems, it would obviously be instructive to compare notes." --

Author : G.V. Morrill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401110426

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Type Logical Grammar by G.V. Morrill Pdf

This book sets out the foundations, methodology, and practice of a formal framework for the description of language. The approach embraces the trends of lexicalism and compositional semantics in computational linguistics, and theoretical linguistics more broadly, by developing categorial grammar into a powerful and extendable logic of signs. Taking Montague Grammar as its point of departure, the book explains how integration of methods from philosophy (logical semantics), computer science (type theory), linguistics (categorial grammar) and meta-mathematics (mathematical logic ) provides a categorial foundation with coverage including intensionality, quantification, featural polymorphism, domains and constraints. For the first time, the book systematises categorial thinking into a unified program which is at once both logically secured, and a practical tool for pure lexical grammar development with type-theoretic semantics. It should be of interest to all those active in computational linguistics and formal grammar and is suitable for use at advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels.

Author : Matteo Capelletti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Categorial grammar
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122440782

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Parsing with Structure-preserving Categorial Grammars by Matteo Capelletti Pdf

Author : Jack Hoeksema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933731

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Categorial Morphology (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by Jack Hoeksema Pdf

This book presents an account of certain problems of morphological analysis that occurs within a theoretical framework that derives its inspiration from recent studies of the lexicon in generative grammar. The starting point is the controversy about the proper analysis of synthetic compounds. Are they really compounds, or phrasal derivations, or do they constitute a type of word formation of their own?

Author : Harold D. Levin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037569956

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Categorial Grammar and the Logical Form of Quantification by Harold D. Levin Pdf