This book deals with a major problem in the study of language: the
problem of reference. The ease with which we refer to things in
conversation is deceptive. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that
we hardly ever tell each other explicitly what object we mean,
although we expect our interlocutor to discern it. Amichai Kronfeld
provides an answer to two questions associated with this: how do we
successfully refer, and how can a computer be programmed to achieve
this? Beginning with the major theories of reference, Dr Kronfeld
provides a consistent philosophical view which is a synthesis of
Frege's and Russell's semantic insights with Grice's and Searle's
pragmatic theories. This leads to a set of guiding principles,
which are then applied to a computational model of referring. The
discussion is made accessible to readers from a number of
backgrounds: in particular, students and researchers in the areas
of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and the
philosophy of language will want to read this book.
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