TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clifford,James
TI  - Formal semantics and pragmatics for natural language querying
T2  - Cambridge tracts in theoretical computer science
SN  - 9780511569753 (ebook)
AV  - QA76.9.N38 C55 1990
U1  - 006.3/5 20
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Natural language processing (Computer science)
KW  - Programming languages (Electronic computers)
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Pragmatics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the success of efforts to incorporate more 'real world' semantics into database models. This idea is a relatively recent concern of database research but it is receiving growing interest. The book begins with a discussion of database querying which motivates the use of the paradigm of Montague Semantics and discusses the details of the intensional logic ILs. This is followed by a description of the author's own model, the Historical Relational Data Model (HRDM) which extends the RDM to include a temporal dimension. Finally the database querying language QEHIII is defined and examples illustrate its use. A formal model for the interpretation of questions is presented in this work which will form the basis for much further research
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511569753
ER  -