Natural Language and Logic: International Scientific Symposium, Hamburg, FRG, May 9-11, 1989. Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540530824 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 255 str.

Rudi Studer

Opis

This volume contains the papers presented at a symposium on the application of logic-based methods for natural language understanding. Emphasis is put in use of the methods of computational linguistics and knowledge representation in natural language systems.

Spis treści

Treatment of anaphoric problems in referentially opaque contexts.- Knowledge processing in the LILOG project from the first to the second prototype.- Indexicality and representation.- Contextualization and de-contextualization.- Computational semantics: Steps towards “intelligent” text processing.- Propositional and depictorial representations of spatial knowledge: The case of path-concepts.- Slot Grammar.- On the logical structure of comparatives.- Aspects of consistency of sophisticated knowledge representation languages.- Unification based machine translation.- Perspectives in multiple-valued logic.- Properties and actions.- Rationale and methods for abductive reasoning in natural-language interpretation.