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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Book title
Taking Scope : The Natural Semantics of Quantifiers
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
MIT Press
ISBN of book
9780262017077
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
<22> Originality: The "Combinatory Categorial" (CCG) theory of syntax and semantics presented in this book and in earlier ones (1996, 2000) originates entirely in Steedman's own work with colleagues and students.
Significance: This book shows that the unorthodox but constrained CCG theory of linguistic structure supports a simpler semantics for natural language than the standard accounts, explaining a number of puzzling constraints on available readings for sentences involving negation and quantifiers by the use of generalized Skolem terms.
Rigour: The book includes a fully formal model theory and provides an algorithmic basis for efficient computation of this novel semantics.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
D - Institute for Language, Cognition & Computation
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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