th This volume is dedicated to Dov Gabbay who celebrated his 50 birthday in October 1995. Dov is one of the most outstanding and most productive researchers we have ever met. He has exerted a profound influence in major fields of logic, linguistics and computer science. His contributions in the areas of logic, language and reasoning are so numerous that a comprehensive survey would already fill half of this book. Instead of summarizing his work we decided to let him speak for himself. Sitting in a car on the way to Amsterdam airport he gave an interview to Jelle Gerbrandy and Anne-Marie Mineur. This recorded conversation with him, which is included gives a deep insight into his motivations and into his view of the world, the Almighty and, of course, the role of logic. In addition, this volume contains a partially annotated bibliography of his main papers and books. The length of the bibliography and the broadness of the topics covered there speaks for itself.
Author(s): Hans Jürgen Ohlbach, Uwe Reyle (eds.)
Series: Trends in Logic 5
Publisher: Kluwer
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 429
Tags: Logic; Computational Linguistics; Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Dov Gabbay: “I am a Logic”....Pages 1-12
Research Themes of Dov Gabbay....Pages 13-30
Proofs, Labels and Dynamics in Natural Language....Pages 31-41
What a Linguist Might Want from a Logic of Most and Other Generalized Quantifiers....Pages 43-72
Imperative History: Two-Dimensional Executable Temporal Logic....Pages 73-98
Diagrammatic Reasoning in Projective Geometry....Pages 99-114
On Sentences of the Kind “Sentence ‘ P ’ is about Topic T ”....Pages 115-133
Two Traditions in the Logic of Belief: Bringing them Together....Pages 135-147
Elimination of Predicate Quantifiers....Pages 149-171
Labelled Natural Deduction....Pages 173-250
A General Reasoning Scheme for Underspecified Representations....Pages 251-277
Deductive Systems and Categories in Linguistics....Pages 279-294
Towards a Procedural Model of Natural-Language Interpretation Crossover: A Case Study....Pages 295-334
Transformation Methods in LDS....Pages 335-376
Labelled Deduction in the Composition of Form and Meaning....Pages 377-399
Formalisms for Non-Formal Languages....Pages 401-415
Back Matter....Pages 417-429
