Logic, Language, and Information: Research 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, including: Generalized Quantifier Theory, Situational Semantics, Dynamic Semantics, and the Annotated Deductive Theory for Natural Language Understanding. These theories demonstrate that natural language and logical language are fundamentally interconnected and can both 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, explains certain quantification structures in Chinese using the concept of composite quantifiers, and constructs a logical system to characterize the semantic aggregation.