Description: Further DetailsTitle: Enriched MeaningsCondition: NewEAN: 9780198847861ISBN: 9780198847861Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/15/2020Item Height: 248mmItem Length: 171mmItem Width: 12mmAuthor: Ash Asudeh, Gianluca GiorgoloLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Natural Language Semantics with Category TheoryISBN-10: 0198847866Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and PragmaticsGenre: Computing & InternetTopic: Society & Culture, Philosophy & Spirituality, Language & ReferenceItem Weight: 382gRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Enriched Meanings
Title: Enriched Meanings
EAN: 9780198847861
ISBN: 9780198847861
Release Date: 09/15/2020
Release Year: 2020
Subtitle: Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory
ISBN-10: 0198847866
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Computing & Internet
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Enriched Meanings : Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: General, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ash Asudeh, Gianluca Giorgolo
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.8 in
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics Ser.
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
