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Develops a uniform framework of relational semantics to mediate between logical calculi and their semantics through algebra. This volume addresses normal modal logics such as K and S5, and substructural logics, including relevance logics, linear logic, and Lambek calculi.

Since the dawn of the age of computers, researchers are trying tackle the challenge of developing software that can understand ordinary human language. This title contains several essays which shed light on the research in this field.

Includes contributions on language typology, synchronic variation, language change, constituent structure, function identification, subject condition, control, complex predicates, NP internal structure, wh-constructions, syntactic features, and lexical issues. This volume covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language.

Can new technologies enhance local, national, and global democracy? This book attempts to sample the full range of work on online deliberation, forging fresh connections between academic research, web designers, and practitioners. It is suitable for those working at the crossroads of computer and social science.

Intends to broaden our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. This book argues that the search for strong theories should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive conceptual tools.

Arabic is an exciting - yet challenging - language for scholars. This book documents the work of researchers in both academia and industry who have taken up the challenge of solving the real-life problems posed by an understudied language. It explores Arabic machine translation systems, and innovations in speech recognition and mention detection.

Presents the work of contemporary scholars approaching the issues of linguistic meaning and linguistic acts from various perspectives - from the old disciplines of philosophy and rhetoric to the thinking on semantics and pragmatics - to illuminate different aspects of meaning, communication, argumentation, and persuasion.

Plato's "Parmenides" and Aristotle's "Metaphysics" initiated the discussion of the "First Philosophy" in the Western canon. This work deals with this debate by considering statements as the fundamental bearers of truth-values.

What does linguistic diversity tell us about the human mind? From historical perspectives on Indonesian to apparent time change in Smith Island verbs, from unplanned spoken Russian to argument structure in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in this work render a spectrum of linguistic possibility.

Argues that reflective reasoning constitutes practical reasoning. By applying this conception, this work develops philosophical accounts of intention, free will, and the foundation of morals.

Ronald M Kaplan has made foundational contributions to the development of computational linguistic research and linguistic theory, particularly within Lexical-Functional Grammar. This work, a tribute to Kaplan's work, collects computational and theoretical linguistics papers in his research areas.

Explores how aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality shape the effectiveness of communication, the roles of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of meaning. It surveys research in the fields of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

Examines how natural language rules and knowledge of the world work together to produce correct understandings of expressions that cannot be fully understood through literal reading. This is an in-depth work on semantics and natural language, and will be useful to scholars in computational linguistics.

A multilingual study of color nomenclature. It studies 110 additional unwritten languages in detail and in situ. It presents the results with charts showing the overall palette of color terms within each language, as well as the levels of agreement among speakers.

The papers collected here focus on probabilistic causality, addressing topics such as the search for casual mechanisms, epistemic and metaphysical views of causality, Baesian nets and causal dependance, and causation in the special sciences. The emphasis is on stochastic processes, however.