Database semantics for natural language
Artificial Intelligence
Foundations of computational linguistics: human-computer communication in natural language
Foundations of computational linguistics: human-computer communication in natural language
Introduction To Automata Theory, Languages, And Computation
Introduction To Automata Theory, Languages, And Computation
A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Sign Types
CICLing '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
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Predicate calculus treats determiner-noun sequences like the man, every man, or several men as 'quantified noun phrases.' This analysis in terms of quantifiers, variables, and connectives creates a major structural difference compared to the handling of proper names. The modeling of natural language communication in database semantic (DBS), in contrast, treats the functor-argument structure as primary, regardless of whether an argument is of the sign type symbol (determiner-noun sequence), name, or indexical (pronoun). The meanings carried by different determiners are reanalyzed as controlling the matching between nominal symbols and individuals, or sets of individuals, at the level of context.