Towards a Many-Dimensional Modal Logic for Semantic Processing

Notions of context for natural language interpretation are factored in terms of three processes: translation, entailment and attunement. The processes are linked by accessibility relations of the kind studied in many-dimensional modal logic, modulo complications from constraints between translation and entailment (violations in which may trigger re-attunement) and from refinement and underspecification.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: AIML
• Authors: Tim Fernando
• Keywords: AIML 2000, AIML 2008, Entailment, Many-dimensional Modal Logic, Natural Language Interpretation