Test-score semantics for natural languages

  • Authors:
  • Lotfi A. Zadeh

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley, California

  • Venue:
  • COLING '82 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Test-score semantics is based on the premise that almost everything that relates to natural languages is a matter of degree. Viewed from this perspective, any semantic entity in a natural language, e.g., a predicate, predicate-modifier, proposition, quantifier, command, question, etc. may be represented as a system of elastic constraints on a collection of objects or derived objects in a universe of discourse. In this sense, test-score semantics may be viewed as a generalization of truth-conditional, possible-world and model-theoretic semantics, but its expressive power is substantially greater.