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This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and
experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations
that support natural language production and understanding, and
other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised
in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be
adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format,
and if so, what exactly is its nature. Frames are a key topic
covered which have had a strong impact on the exploration of
knowledge representations in artificial intelligence, psychology
and linguistics; cascades are a novel development in frame theory.
Other key subject areas explored are: concepts and categorization,
the experimental investigation of mental representation, as well as
cognitive analysis in semantics. This book is of interest to
students, researchers, and professionals working on cognition in
the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and
accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part
takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena
and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of
meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and
meaning relations, the basics of noun semantics, verb semantics and
sentence semantics. The second part provides a critical
introduction to the basic notions of the three major theoretical
approaches to meaning: structuralism, cognitive semantics and
formal semantics. Key features include: A consistent mentalist
perspective on meaning Broad coverage of lexical and sentence
semantics, including three new chapters discussing deixis, NP
semantics, presuppositions, verb semantics and frames Examples from
a wider range of languages that include German, Japanese, Spanish
and Russian. Practical exercises on linguistic data Companion
website including all figures and tables from the book, an online
dictionary, answers to the exercises and useful links at
routledge.com/cw/loebner This book is an essential resource for all
undergraduate students studying semantics. Sebastian Loebner is a
Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for Language and
Information at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and
accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part
takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena
and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of
meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and
meaning relations, the basics of noun semantics, verb semantics and
sentence semantics. The second part provides a critical
introduction to the basic notions of the three major theoretical
approaches to meaning: structuralism, cognitive semantics and
formal semantics. Key features include: A consistent mentalist
perspective on meaning Broad coverage of lexical and sentence
semantics, including three new chapters discussing deixis, NP
semantics, presuppositions, verb semantics and frames Examples from
a wider range of languages that include German, Japanese, Spanish
and Russian. Practical exercises on linguistic data Companion
website including all figures and tables from the book, an online
dictionary, answers to the exercises and useful links at
routledge.com/cw/loebner This book is an essential resource for all
undergraduate students studying semantics. Sebastian Loebner is a
Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for Language and
Information at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany
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Logic, Language, and Computation - 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2011, Kutaisi, Georgia, September 26-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Guram Bezhanishvili, Sebastian Loebner, Vincenzo Marra, Frank Richter
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th
International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and
Computation, TbiLLC 2011, held in Kutaisi, Georgia, in September
2011. The book consists of summaries of 3 tutorials presented at
the symposium together with 13 full papers that were carefully
reviewed and selected from the submissions. The papers are
organized in two sections, one on Language and one on Logic and
Computation. The range of topics covered in the Language section
includes natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, frames
in natural language semantics, linguistic typology, and discourse
phenomena. The papers in the Logic and Computation section cover
such topics as constructive, modal, algebraic, and philosophical
logic, as well as logics for computer science applications.
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Logic, Language, and Computation - 8th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2009, Bakuriani, Georgia, September 21-25, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Nick Bezhanishvili, Sebastian Loebner, Kerstin Schwabe, Luca Spada
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R1,964
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Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic,
Language and Information, this book constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 8th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic,
Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2009, held in Bakuriani, Georgia,
in September 2009. The 20 revised full papers included in the book
were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous presentations
given at the symposium. The focus of the papers is on the following
topics: natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics;
constructive, modal and algebraic logic; linguistic typology and
semantic universals; logics for artificial intelligence;
information retrieval, query answer systems; logic, games, and
formal pragmatics; language evolution and learnability;
computational social choice; historical linguistics, history of
logic.
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