Representation Of Language

Author : Jan Nuyts,A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Co Vet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 362 pages
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Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283344

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Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory by Jan Nuyts,A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Co Vet Pdf

Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures assumed to underlie utterances in natural languages, in two respects. One area is the question of whether to expand the representations accepted in Functional Grammar (FG) in order to capture interpersonal functions, i.e., communication between speaker and hearer in a particular situation and context, to include, for example, aspect, tense, modality and illocutionary force. The second area concerns whether current underlying representation in FG is sufficiently abstract to be the format for the deepest level of human conceptual knowledge storage, as discussed by Simon Dik in a number of recent articles.

Author : Georges Rey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192597748

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Representation of Language by Georges Rey Pdf

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, however, a critical examination of some of the glosses on the theory: the assimilation of it to traditional Rationalism; a supposed conflict between being innate and learned; an unclear ontology and the need of a "representational pretense" with regard to it; and, most crucially, a rejection of Chomsky's eliminativism about the role of intentionality not only in his own theories, but in any serious science at all. This last is a fundamentally important issue for linguistics, psychology, and philosophy that an examination of a theory as rich and promising as a Chomskyan linguistics should help illuminate. The book ends with a discussion of some further issues that Chomsky misleadingly associates with his theory: an anti-realism about ordinary thought and talk, and a dismissal of the mind/body problem(s), towards the solution of some of which his theory in fact makes an important contribution.

Author : Eric Lawrence Gans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520042026

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The Origin of Language by Eric Lawrence Gans Pdf

Author : María Ponte,María de Ponte,Kepa Korta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198714217

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Reference and Representation in Thought and Language by María Ponte,María de Ponte,Kepa Korta Pdf

This volume offers novel views on the precise relation between reference to an object by means of a linguistic expression and our mental representation of that object, long a source of debate in the philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science. Chapters in this volume deal with our devices for singular reference and singular representation, with most focusing on linguistic expressions that are used to refer to particular objects, persons, or places. These expressions include proper names such as Mary and John; indexicals such as I and tomorrow; demonstrative pronouns such as this and that; and some definite and indefinite descriptions such as The Queen of England or a medical doctor. Other chapters examine the ways we represent objects in thought, particularly the first-person perspective and the self, and one explores a notion common to reference and representation: salience. The volume includes the latest views on these complex topics from some of the most prominent authors in the field and will be of interest to anyone working on issues of reference and representation in thought and language.

Author : Jesus M. Larrazabal,Luis A. Pérez Miranda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 185 pages
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Release : 2013-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402027833

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Language, Knowledge, and Representation by Jesus M. Larrazabal,Luis A. Pérez Miranda Pdf

Every two years since 1989, an international colloquium on cognitive science is held in Donostia - San Sebastian, attracting the most important researchers in that field. This volume is a collection of the invited papers to the Sixth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-99), written from a multidisciplinary, cognitive perspective, and addressing various essential topics such as self-knowledge, intention, consciousness, language use, learning and discourse. This collection reflects not only the various interdisciplinary origins and standpoints of the participating researchers, but also the richness, fruitfulness, and exciting state of research in the field of cognitive science today. A must-read for anyone interested in philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and computer science, and in the perception of these topics from the perspective of cognitive science.

Author : Patrick Blackburn,Johannes Bos
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 1575864967

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Representation and Inference for Natural Language by Patrick Blackburn,Johannes Bos Pdf

How can computers distinguish the coherent from the unintelligible, recognize new information in a sentence, or draw inferences from a natural language passage? Computational semantics is an exciting new field that seeks answers to these questions, and this volume is the first textbook wholly devoted to this growing subdiscipline. The book explains the underlying theoretical issues and fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for fragments of natural language. This volume will be an essential text for computer scientists, linguists, and anyone interested in the development of computational semantics.

Author : Hermann Helbig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540299660

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Knowledge Representation and the Semantics of Natural Language by Hermann Helbig Pdf

Natural Language is not only the most important means of communication between human beings, it is also used over historical periods for the pres- vation of cultural achievements and their transmission from one generation to the other. During the last few decades, the ?ood of digitalized information has been growing tremendously. This tendency will continue with the globali- tion of information societies and with the growing importance of national and international computer networks. This is one reason why the theoretical und- standing and the automated treatment of communication processes based on natural language have such a decisive social and economic impact. In this c- text, the semantic representation of knowledge originally formulated in natural language plays a central part, because it connects all components of natural language processing systems, be they the automatic understanding of natural language (analysis), the rational reasoning over knowledge bases, or the g- eration of natural language expressions from formal representations. This book presents a method for the semantic representation of natural l- guage expressions (texts, sentences, phrases, etc. ) which can be used as a u- versal knowledge representation paradigm in the human sciences, like lingu- tics, cognitive psychology, or philosophy of language, as well as in com- tational linguistics and in arti?cial intelligence. It is also an attempt to close the gap between these disciplines, which to a large extent are still working separately.

Author : Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262028882

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Motion and Representation by Nicolas Salazar Sutil Pdf

An examination of the ways human movement can be represented as a formal language and how this language can be mediated technologically. In Motion and Representation, Nicolás Salazar Sutil considers the representation of human motion through languages of movement and technological mediation. He argues that technology transforms the representation of movement and that representation in turn transforms the way we move and what we understand to be movement. Humans communicate through movement, physically and mentally. To record and capture integrated movement (both bodily and mental), by means of formal language and technological media, produces a material record and cultural expression of our evolving kinetic minds and identities. Salazar Sutil considers three forms of movement inscription: a written record (notation), a visual record (animation), and a computational record (motion capture). He focuses on what he calls kinetic formalism—formalized movement in such pursuits as dance, sports, live animation, and kinetic art, as well as abstract definitions of movement in mathematics and computer science. He explores the representation of kinetic space and spatiotemporality; the representation of mental plans of movement; movement notation, including stave notation (Labanotation) and such contemporary forms of notation as Choreographic Language Agent; and the impact of digital technology on contemporary representations of movement—in particular motion capture technology and Internet transfer protocols. Motion and Representation offers a unique cultural theory of movement and of the ever-changing ways of representing movement.

Author : Zhiyuan Liu,Yankai Lin,Maosong Sun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811555732

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Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing by Zhiyuan Liu,Yankai Lin,Maosong Sun Pdf

This open access book provides an overview of the recent advances in representation learning theory, algorithms and applications for natural language processing (NLP). It is divided into three parts. Part I presents the representation learning techniques for multiple language entries, including words, phrases, sentences and documents. Part II then introduces the representation techniques for those objects that are closely related to NLP, including entity-based world knowledge, sememe-based linguistic knowledge, networks, and cross-modal entries. Lastly, Part III provides open resource tools for representation learning techniques, and discusses the remaining challenges and future research directions. The theories and algorithms of representation learning presented can also benefit other related domains such as machine learning, social network analysis, semantic Web, information retrieval, data mining and computational biology. This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, researchers, lecturers, and industrial engineers, as well as anyone interested in representation learning and natural language processing.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297662

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Pdf

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.

Author : William Marslen-Wilson,Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands),Interfacultaire werkgroep taal- en spraakgedrag (Nimègue, Pays-Bas)
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262631423

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Lexical Representation and Process by William Marslen-Wilson,Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands),Interfacultaire werkgroep taal- en spraakgedrag (Nimègue, Pays-Bas) Pdf

The 18 contributions in Lexical Representation and Process provide a coherent and well-documented frame of reference for a field of study that is becoming central to both linguistics and psycholinguistics.

Author : Jan Nuyts,A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Co Vet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250230

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Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory by Jan Nuyts,A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Co Vet Pdf

Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures assumed to underlie utterances in natural languages, in two respects. One area is the question of whether to expand the representations accepted in Functional Grammar (FG) in order to capture interpersonal functions, i.e., communication between speaker and hearer in a particular situation and context, to include, for example, aspect, tense, modality and illocutionary force. The second area concerns whether current underlying representation in FG is sufficiently abstract to be the format for the deepest level of human conceptual knowledge storage, as discussed by Simon Dik in a number of recent articles.

Author : J.F. Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401023016

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Linguistic Representation by J.F. Rosenberg Pdf

This book is nominally about linguistic representation. But, since it is we who do the representing, it is also about us. And, since it is the universe which we represent, it is also about the universe. In the end, then, this book is about everything, which, since it is a philosophy book, is as it should be. I recognize that it is nowadays unfashionable to write books about every thing. Philosophers of language, it will be said, ought to stick to writing about language; philosophers of science, to writing about science; epis temologists, to writing about knowing; and so on. The real world, however, perversely refuses to carve itself up so neatly, and, although I recognize that the real w,orld is nowadays also unfashionable, in the end I judged that one might get closer to the truth of various matters by going along with it. So I have done so. lt was Wilfrid Sellars who initially convinced me of the virtues of this way of proceeding. At this point one normally says something like "The debt that this book owes him is immense". I would say it too, were it not to understate the case, From Wilfrid, I learned to think about things. If the upshot of my thinking tends, as it obviously does, to show a general con silience with the upshot of his, it is primarily because he is so very good at it - and he had a head start.

Author : Klaus J. Kohler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107170728

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Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction by Klaus J. Kohler Pdf

Prosody in English, German and Chinese is outlined as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction.

Author : María de Ponte,Kepa Korta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191023651

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Reference and Representation in Thought and Language by María de Ponte,Kepa Korta Pdf

This volume offers novel views on the precise relation between reference to an object by means of a linguistic expression and our mental representation of that object, long a source of debate in the philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science. Chapters in this volume deal with our devices for singular reference and singular representation, with most focusing on linguistic expressions that are used to refer to particular objects, persons, or places. These expressions include proper names such as Mary and John; indexicals such as I and tomorrow; demonstrative pronouns such as this and that; and some definite and indefinite descriptions such as The Queen of England or a medical doctor. Other chapters examine the ways we represent objects in thought, particularly the first-person perspective and the self, and one explores a notion common to reference and representation: salience. The volume includes the latest views on these complex topics from some of the most prominent authors in the field and will be of interest to anyone working on issues of reference and representation in thought and language.