Logic, Language, and Information: Studies on Logical Grammar

Author: Zou Chongli
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The intersection of logic, language, and information processing constitutes the research object of natural language logic or logical grammar. This book first systematically introduces several logical grammar theories, which are: generalized quantifier theory, situation semantics, dynamic semantics, and labeled deduction theory for natural language understanding. These theories indicate that natural language and logical language are fundamentally, and both can be described using formal methods for computer information processing. The book further applies the tools of logical grammar to study the semantic features of Chinese, explaining certain quantification structures in Chinese using the concept of compound quantifiers, and constructs a logical system to describe polysemantic meaning.