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Item Details
Title:
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FORMAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING
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By: |
James Clifford |
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Hardback |

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£47.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521354331 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521354332 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
29 June, 1990 |
Series: |
Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science 8 |
Pages: |
210 |
Description: |
A discussion of the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. |
Synopsis: |
This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the success of efforts to incorporate more 'real world' semantics into database models. This idea is a relatively recent concern of database research but it is receiving growing interest. The book begins with a discussion of database querying which motivates the use of the paradigm of Montague Semantics and discusses the details of the intensional logic ILs. This is followed by a description of the author's own model, the Historical Relational Data Model (HRDM) which extends the RDM to include a temporal dimension. Finally the database querying language QEHIII is defined and examples illustrate its use. A formal model for the interpretation of questions is presented in this work which will form the basis for much further research. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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