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AI
1998
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Applications of the Situation Calculus to Formalizing Control and Strategic Information: The Prolog Cut Operator
We argue that the situation calculus is a natural formalism for representing and reasoning about control and strategic information. As a case study, in this paper we provide a sit...
Fangzhen Lin
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
A Note on Ontology and Ordinary Language
We argue for a compositional semantics grounded in a strongly typed ontology that reflects our commonsense view of the world and the way we talk about it. Assuming such a structure...
Walid S. Saba
COGSCI
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Intention, interpretation and the computational structure of language
I show how a conversational process that takes simple, intuitively meaningful steps may be understood as a sophisticated computation that derives the richly detailed, complex repr...
Matthew Stone
ENTCS
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
A Space Semantics for Core Haskell
Haskell currently lacks a standard operational semantics. We argue that such a semantics should be provided to enable reasoning about operational properties of programs, to ensure...
Adam Bakewell, Colin Runciman
TBILLC
2005
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Doubling: The Semantic Driving Force Behind Functional Categories
In this paper I argue that syntactic categories are not part of UG but are acquired during first language acquisition as a result of doubling effects. In short, it is argued that a...
Hedde Zeijlstra