This volume is the proceedings of the Second Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence (EAIA '90) held in Guarda, Portugal, October 8-12, 1990. The focus of the contributions is natural language processing. Two types of subject are covered: - Linguistically motivated theories, presented at an introductory level, such as X-bar theory and head- driven phrase structure grammar, - Recent trends in formalisms which will be familiar to readers with a background in AI, such as Montague semantics and situation semantics. The topics were chosen to provide a balanced overview of the most important ideas in natural language processing today. Some of the results presented were worked out very recently, are the subject of ongoing research, and have not previously appeared in book form. This book may serve as a textbook: in fact its contents were intended as lecture notes.
Author(s): Miguel Filgueiras, Nelma Moreira, Ana Paula Tomás (auth.), M. Filgueiras, L. Damas, N. Moreira, A. P. Tomás (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 476
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1991
Language: English
Pages: 262
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
General introduction....Pages 1-3
Methods and tools for lexical acquisition....Pages 4-24
X-bar theory: Its role in GB theory....Pages 25-54
Information-based linguistics and head-driven phrase structure....Pages 55-101
Three lectures on situation theoretic grammar....Pages 102-140
Basic aspects of the theory of generalized quantifiers....Pages 141-157
The semantics of tense and aspect....Pages 158-184
Simplifying and correcting the treatment of intentionality in Montague semantics....Pages 185-205
Compositionality and omniscience in situation semantics....Pages 206-224
Some remarks on first-order intensional logic....Pages 225-234
References....Pages 235-253
