A Finite-state Approach to Events in Natural Language Semantics

  • Authors:
  • Tim Fernando

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. E-mail: Tim.Fernando@tcd.ie

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Logic and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Events in natural language semantics are characterized in terms of regular languages, each string in which can be regarded as a temporal sequence of observations. The usual regular constructs (concatenation, etc.) are supplemented with superposition, inducing a useful notion of entailment, distinct from that given by models of predicate logic.