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Enriched Meanings - Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory (Hardcover)
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Enriched Meanings - Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics, 13
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This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural
language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related
ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been
influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain
expressions that exhibit complex effects at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary live in an enriched meaning space,
while others live in a more basic meaning space. These basic
meanings are mapped to enriched meanings only when required
compositionally, which avoids generalizing meanings to the worst
case. Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo show that the monadic theory
of enriched meanings offers a formally and computationally
well-defined way to tackle important challenges at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary. In particular, they develop
innovative monadic analyses of three phenomena - conventional
implicature, substitution puzzles, and conjunction fallacies - and
demonstrate that the compositional properties of monads model
linguistic intuitions about these cases particularly well. The
analyses are accompanied by exercises to aid understanding, and the
computational tools used are available on the book's companion
website. The book also contains background chapters on enriched
meanings and category theory. The volume is interdisciplinary in
nature, with insights from semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of
language, psychology, and computer science, and will appeal to
graduate students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines
with an interest in natural language understanding and
representation.
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